The international nuclear community seems...

Leaders from 37 countries and delegations from 10 other states have agreed to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials, such as uranium and plutonium, around the globe within four years to keep them out of the grasp of terrorists. This is certainly a success, if not a miracle.

However, this goal is unlikely to be achieved in four years. To make progress in this sphere, we must first solve the complex problems in the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and several other countries. It is the failure to solve these problems that is increasing the threat of nuclear terrorism.

Until recently, only the United States and Russia were serious about securing vulnerable nuclear materials. After the Washington summit, other countries may join in this titanic undertaking.

Russia, which helped the U.S. formulate the agenda for the summit, also initiated the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, currently the main document defining

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