WASHINGTON -- President Obama is more worried about a nuclear terror attack targeting New York City than he is about Russia's territorial ambitions, he said Tuesday.
'Russia's actions are a problem,' Obama said Tuesday in The Hague, Netherlands, after the third meeting of the international Nuclear Security Summit.
But, the Russians 'don't pose the number-one national security threat to the United States,' Obama said.
'I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.'
Even though Russian President Vladimir just completed the controversial annexation of Crimeafrom Ukraine, Obama pooh-poohed Russia's prowess.
'Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors -- not out of strength, but out of weakness,' Obama said.
Obama was responding to statements by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who told CBS on Sunday he was right when he warned two years ago that Russia was America's top geopolitical foe.
Obama's 'naiveté with regards to Russia and his faulty judgment about Russia's intentions and objectives has led to a number of foreign policy challenges that we face,' Romney said Sunday.
During the presidential campaign, Obama argued that Al Qaeda posed the biggest threat to America, telling Romney, 'The Cold War's been over for 20 years.'
Anti-terrorism officials consider the detonation of a traditional nuclear device in a major U.S. city the nation's worst-case terror scenario.
To combat the threat in New York, the Department of Homeland Security has spent roughly $20 million per year in the metropolitan region on a pilot program that fields fixed and mobile radiation detectors throughout the area.
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