SENIOR COMMANDER SAYS NUCLEAR TERRORISM POSSIBLE IN RUSSIA.

In a statement to Moskovskie novosti (no. 44) that willdo little to calm the population, Col. Gen. Yevgeni Maslin, thedefense ministry official responsible for nuclear security, saidthat "the threat of nuclear terrorism in Russia exists."While he said that no nuclear weapons from the strategic rocketforces had gotten loose, he noted that terrorists could seizeweapons when they are moved from place to place. (In contrastto the United States, Russia uses only ground transportation forsuch shifts.) Maslin added that his directorate had staged simulationsto try to figure out what to do if a disgruntled officer shouldtry to sell nuclear weapons to outsiders.

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