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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (12812)	9/3/1998 12:20:00 AM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

ALERT!! Russia situation critical. Could have market meltdown again. I will post later if needed. International Christian Embassy Jerusalem - 09/02/98 Western experts quoted in US media have voiced concern that the Russian economic crisis could result in the illegal sale by unpaid, desperate military employees of nuclear weapons technology to terror groups or terror-supporting states. Joseph Cirincione, director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told the SAN FRANSISCO EXAMINER (Aug 30) that Russia "has 22,000 nuclear weapons. And 10,000 to 15,000 of them are in storage and, so, are guarded not by elite forces but by regular troops" whose trustworthiness is less certain. "You've got to be a little concerned ... about how vulnerable those weapons might be to sale or theft. And those concerns are certainly increased by the economic situation." Arms-control activists have urged President Bill Clinton to make a dramatic gesture during his visit to Russia, like offering to begin talks leading to the lowering of both sides' nuclear arsenals to 1,000 strategic nuclear weapons. Cirincione urged the administration and Congress to increase substantially the annual US expenditure on an existing programme that tries to ensure that Russian scientists and military personnel don't sell bombs, fissionable materials or know-how to outsiders. The research director at the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington, Steven Dolley, said he was "less worried about [loose nukes] until the [Russian] situation became decidedly worse over the last few weeks, with concern about national collapse".