Nuclear attack threat rising: Obama

The risk of nuclear attacks is rising, U.S. President Barack Obama warned Tuesday as he opened the nuclear safety summit in Washington, D.C.

"Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history. The risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up," Obama said in his opening remarks.

"Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist in dozens of nations," he said.

Obama said terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon "and if they ever succeeded they would surely use it."

Well I believe that you can't make a nuclear bomb in some one's garage. Getting the materials is one thing, setting up the device is another. Take, for example, Iran. Apparently they have been trying to build a bomb for a very long time. If a whole country can't do it, what chance does some of these terrorist group of succeeding?

More fear mongering by the Americans.