"In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
As the chart shows, the amount of potentially weapons-usable nuclear material either highly enriched uranium or separated plutonium under inspection has increased far faster than the funds available for safeguarding it.
Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. l622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.