President Obama declared that despite the problematic actions of Russia, the nation does not “pose the No. 1 national security threat to the United States” yesterday in The Hague, Netherlands, after the third meeting of the International Nuclear Security Summit.
The president stated that he is more worried about the impending danger of a nuclear terror attack targeting New York City.
“I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan,” he revealed.
POTUS addressed statements made by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who told CBS on Sunday he was right two years ago when he implied that Russia was America’s biggest geopolitical enemy. Obama called Russia a “regional power” that is “threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength, but out of weakness.”
To fight terrorism in New York, the Department of Homeland Security has spent roughly $20 million annually in the metropolitan region on a pilot program to position fixed and mobile radiation detectors throughout the area.