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Further up the smuggler's route, in the U.S. investigators charged that Russian
northern Afghanistan town of Mazar-e- scientists are also for sale. A spokesman
Sharif, enriched uranium was also for a Hong Kong weapons company that
offered to a foreigner working for an aid posted brazen help-wanted
agency. Even the Pakistan Interior advertisements in Russia said: "We have
Minister, General Naseerullah Babar, detailed files of hundreds of former
admitted that his government has been Soviet Union experts in the field of
approached by smugglers with a nuclear rocket, missile and nuclear
shopping list. weapon[s]...These weapon experts are
willing to work in a country which needs
The Nuclear Merchants their skills and can offer reasonable
pay." It is estimated that two thousand
“I have regret and condemnation Russian nuclear scientists, who were
for the extermination of the Jewish disenchanted with the disintegration of
people which was ordered by the the former Soviet Union, are now
German rulers, but I myself could working for the Chinese, while a
not have done anything to prevent Russian consortium of nuclear
it. I was a tool in the hands of the companies was formed in 1990 to sell
strong and the powerful and in the nuclear weapons to third world countries
hands of fate itself” -- Adolf "for ecological purposes."
Eichmann
As more "outlaw" nations gain nuclear
The Russian abandonment of her six capacity in a more fractured and
former Islamic republics has left a vast dangerous world, the risk increases
volatile region filled with people who dramatically that forces "beyond state
now own some of the most sophisticated control" are getting their hands on
and deadliest weapons in the world. So nuclear weapons. Many among fanatic
far, Russia's atomic smugglers have been Muslims believe that to die for a cause is
lone insiders, scientists and servicemen - to gain an immediate passage to
- disaffected and underpaid. But this paradise. They are an increasingly
"disorganized" crime could easily turn to younger generation who have the
more lethal Russian Mafia types offering education and sophistication to construct
terrorists and profiteerers a virtual weapons their fathers would never have
nuclear supermarket. Within Russia, at a dreamed of.
plutonium warehouse, windows were
broken and boarded up. At a nuclear The United States has long been a major
submarine base, one of the Russian terrorist target, but most of the assaults
navy's main storage areas for atomic on Americans and their organizations
fuel, anti-nuclear activists were able to have taken place overseas. Terrorist
take pictures from close range. "Russia attacks inside the United States have
itself is in many areas unstable, and the been extremely rare, but it is changing.
systems and materials aren't being As the only remaining superpower, the
protected anything like what we would United States already is the Great Satan
like," Senator Nunn said. to Islamic fundamentalists, the protector
of Israel, supporter of the perceived
infidel President Hosni Mubarak of
