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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that with terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda aiming to grab nuclear weapons, the US has warned that the risk of an atomic attack has increased and sought efforts to lock down the world's vulnerable nuclear materials within four years and prevent them from falling into hands of terrorists.Now, the nature of the threat has simply changed. We no longer live in constant fear of a global nuclear war where we are in a standoff against the Russians with our entire nuclear arsenal on the ready, on a hair-trigger alert, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. But, as the US President has said, the risk of a nuclear attack has actually increased. And the potential consequences of mishandling this challenge are fatal, she added.
