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6.07.04 Keynote Address by IAEA Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Nuclear Terrorism

This is the opinion held by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei. Speaking at a US conference hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog endorsed the Carnegie Endowment’s new arms control plan. Under the plan, major nuclear powers would be expected to make concessions in the interests of global security. The IAEA director warned there was a real danger of uranium or plutonium falling into the wrong hands. "The danger is so imminent... not only with regard to countries acquiring nuclear weapons but also terrorists getting their hands on some of these nuclear materials, uranium or plutonium. So the sooner that we start, the better for everybody involved,” he said.

Meanwhile, the US Senator Sam Nunn said the security of nuclear materials in Russia was a key concern. According to him, the biggest challenge was to have US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin put the issue to their agenda.

In accordance with the plan proposed by the Carnegie Endowment, all current nuclear arms control problems need to be put into a single pot and handled together. Everyone - both the nuclear haves and have-nots - have to be seen to make concessions if all are to gain.

One of the authors of the Carnegie Endowment's plan, Joseph Cirincione, said the world was at "a nuclear tipping point" meaning probably that the situation was unpredictable.

Yet other experts are not so sure. Political capital, they say, is limited and needs to be focused on individual proliferation, problems like that between India and Pakistan or the continuing uncertainties surrounding Iran's nuclear ambitions.