One Point Safe - Hardcover

Cockburn, Andrew; Cockburn, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385485603 ISBN 13: 9780385485609

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997

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Book by Leslie Cockburn Andrew Cockburn

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Looks at the problem of safeguarding and disposing of Russia's nuclear stockpile, and argues that terrorists are obtaining nuclear materials

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iet 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.  And it's 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 off the privatization of industry; and it's the officers in charge of underguarded weapons stockpiles, unable to compete with the post-Communist new rich; and it's the very guards manning the night watch, whose bellies ache from hunger. . .

From the vaults of the National Security Council to the headquarters of the mysterious Twelfth Department in the Russian Ministry of Defense, veteran journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn take the reader on a tour of deadly potentialities: couriers

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385485603
• ISBN 13: 9780385485609
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288