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After the Nuclear Summit, What Happens Now?
Russia's Medvedev calls Obama's nuclear summit a "complete success," but adds, "I hope we won't just go home feeling happy." What will it take to sustain agreements to "lock down" nuclear materials? Is the threat of nuclear terrorism overblown? Also, a major earthquake strikes the Dalai Lama's hometown, and climate change and a tax on gasoline.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenRussia's Medvedev calls Obama's nuclear summit a "complete success," but adds, "I hope we won't just go home feeling happy." What will it take to sustain agreements to "lock down" nuclear materials? Is the threat of nuclear terrorism overblown? Also, a major earthquake strikes the Dalai Lama's hometown. On Reporter's Notebook, will a tax on gasoline persuade Senate Republicans to support legislation on climate change?
Banner image: President Barack Obama (L) talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan (C) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during the second plenary session at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, April 13, 2010. Official White House photo: Pete Souza
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3 storiesMajor Earthquake Strikes Dalai Lama's Hometown
The latest massive earthquake — magnitude 6.9 -- struck a remote area of western China today, a region populated mostly by Tibetans. At least 400 are dead and some 8000 are said to be injured. Professor Robert Barnett directs the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University.
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Nobody knows how likely it is that some terrorist group could set off a nuclear weapon. But the consequences are so catastrophic that even a small chance justifies urgent action to reduce the risk. That was the idea behind President Obama's nuclear summit .
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Climate change legislation passed by the House is stalled in the Senate, and the latest possible compromise features a tax on gasoline. Though new taxes are anathema to Republicans, Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina thinks a tax at the pump might be the way to get votes from his GOP colleagues.
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