Summit on nuclear security or nuclear trading? http://www.voltairenet.org/article164952.html

President Obama convened a summit for Heads of State to alert them to the possible theft of nuclear materials by terrorists intent on manufacturing an atomic bomb. Needless to say, considering the price of such materials, no one would be so foolish as to allow them to get stolen and doesn’t need Uncle Sam for advice. Something else was afoot in Washington: the regulation and partition of a gigantic market ...

Paradoxically, however, it is precisely the United States and the other nuclear powers attending the Washington Summit that encourage the proliferation of such weapons. In a situation where a small group of states aim to maintain their possession of nuclear weapons and continue to modernize them, it is more and more likely that others will also want to obtain them. In addition to the nine nuclear countries, at least 40 others are in a position to manufacture them.