Perhaps the silliest pie-in-the-sky chicken-in-every-pot campaign promise hoo-ha ever offered up by a Presidential candidate: Kerry Outlines Way to Limit Nuke Threat.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, outlining a plan to reduce the potential for a nuclear attack by terrorists, promised on Tuesday to safeguard all the nuclear weapons and materials that exist around the world by the end of his first term if elected.

Kerry, speaking at a container port in the politically important state of Florida, also pledged to reduce existing nuclear weapons stockpiles, halt production of the materials used to make them and end nuclear weapons programs in nations like North Korea and Iran.

The Massachusetts senator promised to boost international efforts to stop the trafficking of nuclear materials and said he would name a national coordinator for nuclear terrorism and counterproliferation, a Cabinet-level post, to focus on the issue full time.

“Today, I am proposing a new initiative to prevent the world’s deadliest weapons from falling into the world’s most dangerous hands,” the presidential candidate said at the Port of Palm Beach, the 18th busiest container port in the country.

“If we secure all bomb-making materials, ensure that no new materials are produced for nuclear weapons, and end nuclear weapons programs in hostile states like North Korea and Iran, we will dramatically reduce the possibility of nuclear terrorism,” he said.

Incredible. And people will actually fall for this.