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To: Condor who wrote (21519)	3/16/2002 5:54:29 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 281500

To declare without fact that " the next one will be a real attention getter" carries the same significance as a red blue or green terrorism alert imo. that was merely my humble opinion...and that is always ignorable. if you click here ##**## you will see that it took both brain cells, fully synchronized, to conjure up the thought. it gets really bad when i can't get both working together. uw

To: Condor who wrote (21519)	3/16/2002 6:21:09 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

you might enjoy this unclassified CIA report to congress last month (feb 2002)...better than my ramblings... fas.org clips...Russian facilities housing weapons-usable nuclear material—uranium enriched to 20 percent or greater in uranium-235 or uranium-233 isotopes and any plutonium containing less than 80 percent of the isotope plutonium-238—typically receive low funding, lack trained security personnel, and do not have sufficient equipment for securely storing such material. Weapons-grade and weapons-usable nuclear materials have been stolen from some Russian institutes. We assess that undetected smuggling has occurred, although we do not know the extent or magnitude of such thefts. Nevertheless, we are concerned about the total amount of material that could have been diverted over the last 10 years. In 1992, 1.5 kilograms of 90-percent-enriched weapons-grade uranium were stolen from the Luch Production Association. In 1994, 3.0 kilograms of 90-percent-enriched weapons-grade uranium were stolen in Moscow. In 1999, we confirmed that nuclear material seized in Bulgaria was weapons-usable. The material—four grams of highly enriched uranium—likely originated in Russia. Although not independently confirmed, reports of a theft in 1998 from an unnamed enterprise in Chelyabinsk Oblast are of concern. According to Viktor Yerastov, chief of Minatom's Nuclear Materials Accounting and Control Department, the amount stolen was "quite sufficient material to produce an atomic bomb"— we are concerned about the total amount of material that could have been diverted over the last 10 years. and this is just nuclear...the biological and chemical reports are much more ominous. for example many/most of the top soviet smallpox scientists are missing...and what the American public does not yet know is unlike anthrax...smallpox is highly contagious, incurable, and has a CDC projected death rate of 85-90%