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The Hindu government has projected the nuclear tests of May 1998 as signs of Hindu reawakening. This is because nuclear weapons are being romantacised as symbols of strength and virtility.
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The chief of army staff in Pakistan announced that they decided to join the American-led War on Terror on September 19th, 2001.
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Pakistan and Delhi's relationship deteriorated after Pakistan attacked the Indian parliament in Delhi on December 13th, 2001. This attack killed 14 people, including 5 suicide attackers.
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The White House identified the "deadly nexus" of terrorism and proliferation as the greatest international threat and developed a new national security doctrine of preventive war, which it announced in 2002.
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2005 report of the Chernobyl Forum estimates the premature cancer death toll as 4,000 among the most highly exposed. However, 90% of the documented radiation exposure was excluded from the report. If included, the report would have reported 40,000 extra deaths.
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President Obama announced in April 2009 that the danger of terrorists trying to obtain nuclear weapons was "the most immediate and extreme threat to global security".
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The U.S. raided Osama bin Laden's home and killed him in May, 2011.
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By February 2012, roughly 80% of the nuclear security commitments made by individual countries at the 2010 nuclear security summit had been fulfilled.
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On March 26th and 27th, 2012, leaders from more than fifty contries and international organizations gathered in Seoul, South Korea to affirm their commitment to strengthening the security of nuclear and radiological materials worldwide.
