What Obama's nuclear summit achieved: 5 theories

Leaders and diplomats from 47 countries gathered in Washington this week to forge a unified nuclear policy. What did (or didn't) they accomplish?

Barack Obama.
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President Obama's nuclear security summit concluded Tuesday night, after two days of meetings among leaders and diplomats from 47 countries. The Obama administration hails the summit as a success, saying it made the world a safer place. But the summit's aims were so "modest and uncontroversial," says Tony Karon at Time, it was almost automatically "a success." (Watch a CBS report about the nuclear summit's achievements.) Here, 5 noteworthy outcomes from the gathering:

It cut the worldwide stock of nuclear materials

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