Affiliates of the terrorists who attacked Brussels airport and subway had also installed a surveillance camera outside the house of a senior nuclear worker. This incident follows other instances of sabotage and extremism within the country’s nuclear industry, raising fears that terrorists want to cause a major nuclear accident or seize nuclear material that could perhaps be turned into a “dirty bomb.” The nuclear summits, among Obama’s most successful national security innovations, have made considerable progress in raising awareness about this post–Cold War danger and securing measures to avert it, but the discovery in Brussels serves as a reminder how serious the global threat remains.
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