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Australia Joins Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

The Initiative aims to improve accounting, control and physical protection of nuclear and radioactive materials and facilities; suppress illicit trafficking, especially by terrorists, in such materials; respond to and mitigate any acts of nuclear terrorism; ensure cooperation in the development of technology; deny safe havens to nuclear terrorists; and ensure effective prosecution of nuclear terrorists.

complement Australian programs dealing with nuclear materials, as well as our counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation priorities in Australia and internationally.