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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: John Hunt who wrote (11651)	12/10/2001 6:07:25 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) of 27666

The Nuke Pipeline [ The trade in nuclear contraband is approaching critical mass. Can we turn off the spigot? The six men who gathered at the roadside cafe southeast of Moscow last Thursday did not go there for the food. They went there for the uranium. Some of the men, members of the Balashikha criminal gang, claimed to be in possession of 2 lbs. of uranium 235, the kind of top-shelf radioactive material that can be used to build weapons. They were asking $30,000 for the deadly merchandise. The others -- the buyers -- seemed prepared to pay it. The deal may actually have gone off had Russian security forces not been watching. They swept in, arrested all six men and were led back to the apartment of a seventh, where a capsule containing the promised uranium was hidden. By that evening, the case -- the first officially acknowledged theft in Russia of weapons-grade uranium -- was getting big play on local TV. The Russian police had reason to be proud; the rest of the world had one more reason to be nervous. ] Continued at the link. time.com

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