Published in the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, March 21, 2014
http://www.ipcs.org/article/india/nuclear-security-summit-2014-the-way-forward-4351.html
http://www.ipcs.org/article/india/nuclear-security-summit-2014-the-way-forward-4351.html
The third
edition of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is being held at The Hague
on 24-25 March 2014. Leaders and officials from fifty-four countries and
three international organisations (IAEA, INTERPOL and the UN) are
expected to assemble for the international nuclear gala. As in the 2010
(Washington DC) and the 2012 (Seoul) avatars of the NSS, the main issues
which are likely to be discussed at the Hague 2014 NSS are inter alia
nuclear materials security and preventing nuclear terrorism.
Perusing
the commentaries and op-eds leading up to the 2014 edition of the NSS
and the communiqués put out after by the earlier editions of the NSS,
one gets a sense that mindsets needs to change if the objective of a
making the world a safer place is to be realised.