Nuclear Security Summit

The first 2010 Nuclear Safety Summit in the United States

The third Nuclear Safety Summit in 2014 in the Netherlands

The fourth Nuclear Safety Summit again in the United States in 2016

As a Nuclear Security Summit ( English Nuclear Security Summit ), also nuclear summit , international conferences are called, which took place from 2010 to 2016 every two years. The aim here was to better control the worldwide spread of nuclear explosive material , in particular to prevent the danger of nuclear terrorism. Internationally, the main focus was on the stocks of weapons- grade plutonium .

The first conference took place in the USA in 2010 with 47 international government representatives and goes back to a speech given by US President Barack Obama on April 5, 2009 in Prague . In 2012 there were 53 and in 2014 there were 58 countries that participated. In addition to government officials, there are also leading members of international organizations such as the European Union , the International Atomic Energy Agency and Interpol among the participants; however, these only have observer status.

date	country	place	host
12-13 April 2010	United States	Washington, DC	Barack Obama
26.-27. March 2012	South Korea	Seoul	Lee Myung-bak
24.-25. March 2014	Netherlands	The hague	Mark Rutte
March 31–1. April 2016	United States	Washington, DC	Barack Obama

Web links

Commons : Nuclear Security Summit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Atomic Summit Ukraine. Zeit Online , March 2014
2. ↑ prague.usembassy.gov ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 23rd December 2014