by Sahil Nagpal
Washington A top intelligence official of the IAEA has reportedly said that that the US administration must buy uranium and plutonium from the black market to keep nuclear weapons away from terrorists, criminals and rogue states.
Speaking at the Washington Institute, IAEA Intelligence Director Rolf Mowatt-Larssen said that the US government was not doing enough to buy uranium and plutonium on the black market to keep weapons away from terrorists’ reach.
He said the US government assumes that terrorists or developing countries can obtain or develop a warhead on their own. “We must take urgent action to scoop up any nuclear material outside state control before terrorists do,” the Daily Times quoted him as saying.
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