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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Obama to open landmark nuclear summit AFP - 1 hour 16 minutes ago Send IM Story Print WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US President Barack Obama gathered world leaders at a 47-nation summit Monday, aiming to deprive terror groups of nuclear weapons and warning of a grave and growing threat to the planet. Obama will seek firm pledges on securing loose nuclear material in weapons, atomic reactors and stockpiles within four years, when the largest global meeting hosted by a US leader since 1945 opens later on Monday. Top powers will talk for two days about different aspects of the nuclear threat, focusing especially on stocks of separated plutonium and enriched uranium which could be used by extremists to manufacture weapons. Obama's task will be to convince fellow leaders cloistered in a heavily secured Washington convention center that their nations face the same deep peril as that haunting the United States. "The single biggest threat to US security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon," Obama said on Sunday. And in a stark warning that America was not the only nation in the nuclear crosshairs, Obama said: "This is something that could change the security landscape of this country and around the world for years to come." Obama conjured up the horrific prospect of a nuclear detonation in New York, London or Johannesburg, to suggest the extreme geopolitical and economic fallout of such an attack. "We know that organizations like Al-Qaeda are in the process of trying to secure a nuclear weapon -- a weapon of mass destruction that they have no compunction at using." Security blankets Washington as nuclear summit looms As at any convocation of global leaders, security was tight. Orange dump trunks blocked roads around the cavernous Washington Convention Center. One woman, who declined to give her name, said she had to walk five blocks with a broken foot to get around the barricades blocking her route to work. As well as presiding over the summit, Obama will hold a string of bilateral meetings with world leaders. He will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday in talks likely to focus partly on US hopes that Beijing will let its yuan currency find a market level, after a period of Sino-US tensions. Obama was also due Monday to meet Jordan's King Abdullah II, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Despite the focus on extremist groups, two states, however, Iran and North Korea, which already has the bomb, will cast a shadow over the two-day summit which opens on Monday. Washington is leading an effort to toughen sanctions within weeks on Iran over its nuclear program, which the United States and allies say is aimed at producing weapons, a charge Tehran denies. To kick off his counter-proliferation drive, Obama met Sunday with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazerbayev and South African President Jacob Zuma. Kazakhstan handed over Soviet-era nuclear weapons after the end of the Cold War, but is a key player in Washington as it bills itself as the world's top exporter of uranium. South Africa gave up its nuclear weapons program in the 1990s, and US officials praised its moral example, saying its security had emerged enhanced. Obama also held talks with Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani of nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan which are locked in their own regional arms race. Obama, who last week signed a landmark disarmament treaty with Russia and laid out a new US nuclear strategy limiting how Washington could use atomic weapons, said he was confident the summit would make important progress. "I feel very good at this stage in the degree of commitment and sense of urgency that I've seen from the world leaders so far on this issue," Obama said. "We think we can make enormous progress on this." US officials hope nations at the summit will agree a series of their own steps to guard nuclear material, and help pay to put the stocks of less well-off countries under lock and key. They also expect some leaders to unveil specific actions, similar to Chile's decision to ship a stock of highly enriched uranium to the United States. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu however dropped plans to attend, reportedly because of concern that Islamic states planned to use the conference to press for Israel to open its own nuclear facilities to international inspection. The conference is also a precursor to the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference next month, seen as another important moment in heading off a future nuclear arms race. 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