Obama seeks intelligence-sharing to stop IS attacks

US President Barack Obama said that world leaders at a nuclear security summit had agreed to keep strengthening their nuclear facilities against cyber attacks but that a lot of nuclear material needs to be secured. "There is still a great deal of nuclear and radioactive material around the world that needs to be secured. Global stocks of plutonium are growing. Nuclear arsenals are expanding in some countries with more small tactical nuclear weapons which could be at greater risk of theft," Obama told reporters. On dealing with the threat of Islamic State, Obama said he had invited participating nations to work on improving intelligence-sharing to prevent terrorist attacks. "At our session on ISIL this afternoon there was widespread agreement that defeating terrorist groups like ISIL requires more information sharing," Obama said, using an acronym for the militant group. Obama hosted more than 50 world leaders for his fourth and final summit focused on efforts to lock down vulnerable atomic materials to prevent nuclear terrorism, which he called "one of the greatest threats to global security" in the 21st century. North Korea's nuclear defiance was also high on the agenda. He has...

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