"as Taliban militants widen their grip on more and more parts of [Pakistan], there is reason for apprehension...The National Security Council has been working on a comprehensive review of what might happen to Pakistan's nuclear weapons in an emergency. So over President Asif Ali Zardari's meeting with Obama hangs a pall of dread of what arms controllers have feared for a half century: the day of loose nukes in hostile hands."

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