One Point Safe

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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War may have come to an end. But the deadly Soviet nuclear arsenal - thousands of warheads and hundreds of tons of plutonium - continues to sit virtually unguarded, presenting the world with a new and even more terrifying nuclear threat.
It is not just criminals, extremists or terrorists who are now in a position to place us all at risk. It is also Russia's high military command, who see their colleagues in other departments making millions from the privatisation of industry; it is the officers in charge of poorly guarded weapon stockpiles, unable to compete
with the post-Communist new rich; and it is the very guards manning the night watch, whose stomachs ache with hunger
From the vaults of the National Security Council to the headquarters of the mysterious Twelfth Department in the Russian Ministry of Defence, journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn take ~ the reader on a tour of deadly potentialities: couriers crossing Central Europe... Tovább

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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War may have come to an end. But the deadly Soviet nuclear arsenal - thousands of warheads and hundreds of tons of plutonium - continues to sit virtually unguarded, presenting the world with a new and even more terrifying nuclear threat.
It is not just criminals, extremists or terrorists who are now in a position to place us all at risk. It is also Russia's high military command, who see their colleagues in other departments making millions from the privatisation of industry; it is the officers in charge of poorly guarded weapon stockpiles, unable to compete
with the post-Communist new rich; and it is the very guards manning the night watch, whose stomachs ache with hunger
From the vaults of the National Security Council to the headquarters of the mysterious Twelfth Department in the Russian Ministry of Defence, journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn take ~ the reader on a tour of deadly potentialities: couriers crossing Central Europe with suitcases full of materials more lethal than any
virus; a Siberian warehouse littered with the raw material of 23,000 Hiroshimas; the fanatical terrorist who has already built one radioactive bomb. They reveal how US Intelligence has realised with horror that among those involved in the business of nuclear smuggling Is an organisation born out of the old KGB and headed by a man described by one high-ranking official as 'the most dangerous man in the world'.
Based on first-hand reporting, classified documents and the personal stories of the men and women on the front lines, ONE POINT SAFE makes It frighteningly clear that we are not remotely h as safe as we would like to think. Vissza