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West. President Obama noted such a possibility in his
remarks at the opening plenary session of the <strong>Nuclear</strong>
Security Summit held in Washington, DC, in April
2010. He noted that “the single biggest threat to U.S.
security, both short-term, medium-term, <strong>and</strong> longterm,
would be the possibility of a terrorist organization
obtaining a nuclear weapon.” 28
Nonofficial Russian experts have offered some
ideas on this subject focusing primarily on enhanced
transparency measures <strong>and</strong> consolidation of nuclear
stockpiles. For example, Alexi Arbatov has argued
that trying to limit the overall number of Russian <strong>and</strong>
American NSNWs in Europe is clearly too hard at this
moment. He has proposed that both sides consolidate
their arsenals in their own centralized storage sites.
These sites should be separate from air or naval bases
to insure that the weapons could not be quickly combined
with appropriate delivery systems. Both sides
could then monitor any movement of the warheads
without necessarily having specific information on
how many warheads were stored at any site. Another
expert, Anatoliy Diakov, has also urged Washington
<strong>and</strong> Moscow to implement detailed transparency
measures <strong>and</strong> data exchanges. 29
Many of these ideas are consistent with suggestions
made by the National Academy of Sciences in its report
entitled Global Security Engagement—A New Model
for Cooperative Threat Reduction (2009). This report recommends
a renewed effort by American policymakers
to create a new comprehensive threat reduction (CTR)
program. 30 Such an approach would seem to be a logical
extension of United Nations (UN) Security Council
Resolution (UNSCR) 1540—“Enforcement of Effective
Measures Against Proliferation.” This resolution was
proposed/adopted because of the joint efforts of the
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