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Barack Obama: nuclear terrorism is the single biggest threat to U.S. security, short-term, medium-term, and long-term.

On the recordDecember 31, 2009
nuclear terrorism is the single biggest threat to U.S. security, short-term, medium-term, and long-term.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama emphasized the severe threat of nuclear terrorism to U.S. security.

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