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Philip Finlay-Bryan

From: Denis McDonough, The White House [info@messages.whitehouse.gov]Sent: 13 April 2010 17:40To: philip@irishsecure.comSubject: Fighting Nuclear Terrorism

 

Good morning,

I'm writing you from the largest gathering of world leaders that the United States

has hosted since the founding of the United Nations 65 years ago. Forty-seven

countries are joining forces at President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit to

address the most daunting security threat of our time: nuclear terrorism.

Securing loose nuclear materials is a good example of some of the immediate

challenges being discussed, but the focus is also on how we get to a place where

the threat of nuclear weapons to humanity is eliminated altogether.

To go over the progress that's been made, President Obama will hold a press

conference at 4:30 p.m. EDT that you can watch live on WhiteHouse.gov. But

 you don't need to wait until then: Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes

 will answer your questions in a live web chat at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

So tune in to http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/nuclear-security-summit later today 

for both the web chat and the press conference.

Three very important things have happened recently to make our Nation –

indeed the world – a safer place.

Last week the Defense Department released the President's Nuclear Posture

Review, laying out a vision to, as the President put it, "reduce the role of nuclear

 weapons in our national security strategy and focus on reducing the nuclear

dangers of the 21st century, while sustaining a safe, secure and effective nuclear

deterrent for the United States and our allies and partners as long as nuclear

 weapons exist."

Two days after that, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed

the landmark New START Treaty, which requires the United States and Russiato reduce -- by 30 percent below the levels in a treaty signed in 2002 -- the

number of nuclear warheads they have deployed on intercontinental ballistic

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missiles, submarine-based ballistic missiles, and bombers.

Then, beginning on Sunday of this week, the President engaged in a steady 

stream of bilateral meetings before personally welcoming every delegation last

night and holding a working dinner. Today, the President is chairing plenary 

sessions all day long to work toward solid, consensus approaches to this issue.

It's been a very busy, but productive few weeks, and there is much to talk about.

So bring your questions to the live chat and tune in after that for the press

conference:

•  1:00 p.m. EDT: Web chat with Deputy National Security Advisor Ben

Rhodes

•  4:30 p.m. EDT: Press Conference with President Barack Obama

Both will be live on: http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/nuclear-security-summit.

Thank you,

Denis McDonough

Chief of Staff, National Security Staff 

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