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...evaluate Soviet politics to plumb the oddities in Pyongyang. Who is standing next to whom? What are the editorials hinting? Is Kim the successful successor or under challenge? These are not mere academic concerns when the U.S. needs to get on with talks about curbing North Korea's atom-bomb program...
...conspirators in a garage, like the World Trade Center bombers, would almost certainly lack the money, technical know-how or laboratory equipment to fashion nuclear raw materials into a working weapon. In fact, experts believe that it would be extremely difficult for most terrorist groups to make an atom bomb without the resources of a friendly country. The task, says Spurgeon Keeny, a physicist who is executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, is like building an automobile. Many people know how one is assembled, "but there is a lot of difference between that and sitting down...
...plague are spreading into Europe. After years of scares and false alarms -- almost all the supposed bomb-grade goods on offer turned out to be fraudulent -- German police have in the past four months uncovered four cases of smuggled nuclear material that could actually be used to make an atom bomb. The biggest haul came on Aug. 10, when Lufthansa Flight 3369 from Moscow landed in Munich with 350 grams of atomic fuel aboard. As it happened, so was Viktor Sidorenko, Russia's Deputy Minister for Atomic Energy, whose agency supervises Moscow's stocks of fissionable materials. The lead-lined...
...been arrested for counterfeiting. That was followed in June by recovery of less than a gram of highly enriched uranium -- probably fuel from a nuclear-powered submarine -- in Landshut. Even if all + this smuggled booty were put together, there would not be enough for the smallest and crudest atom bomb, which in the hands of inexperienced makers would take about 8 kg of plutonium...
...ingredient of a bomb. Over the next 10 years, the U.S. and Russia will take 100 metric tons of plutonium out of warheads, and their nuclear-power industries will produce an additional 110 tons. By then there will be enough plutonium in storage worldwide to build 42,000 atom bombs...