Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall told the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a Washington-based nonprofit, that the United States plans to minimize the production and storage of nuclear materials as much as possible. It has been reported TASS.
“We will continue to make it a priority to minimize the production, storage, use and stockpiling of nuclear material that can be used in weapons and to promote the safe destruction of existing nuclear materials,” he said.
According to Sherwood-Randall, these measures include focusing efforts on reducing plutonium stockpiles and avoiding technologies that use or accumulate nuclear materials that can be used in weapons.
The adviser to the US president also pointed out that unlike China, it is expanding its production of nuclear materials.
Earlier, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl said that Iran can. create materials for a nuclear bomb in about 12 days.