WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (NNN-KUNA) — US President Barack Obama will host a nuclear security summit at the Washington Convention Center in April, the White House announced late Friday.
“The purpose of the summit is to discuss steps we can collectively take to secure vulnerable nuclear materials and prevent acts of nuclear terrorism,” White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said during a briefing.
As Obama stated in Prague last April, “nuclear terrorism is the most immediate and extreme threat to global security,” Gibbs said.
The summit will take place April 12 and 13. — NNN-KUNA 
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