Assembly Adopts Anti-Terror Treaty
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From Times Wire Reports
After a seven-year struggle, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a global treaty making it a crime to possess radioactive material or weapons with the intention of committing a terrorist act.
The treaty is meant to be a new safeguard against nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorist groups.
Russia has been at the center of those fears, in the wake of numerous reports that material disappeared after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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