1996 NIS Nuclear Trafficking

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Dec. 30, 1996

1996 Reported Thefts and Seizures

January 1914-1996: Yeltsin I Kohl Druzhat petssluzhbami?
January: When Terrorists Go Nuclear
January: The Real Threat Of Nuclear Smuggling
January: Informatsiya
January: Otsenivaya Opasnost Yadernykh Khishchenii Iz Gosudarstv Byvshego Sovetskogo Soyuza
January: Nuclear Smuggling: How Serious A Threat?
January 4: Rossiickoi Glunike Grozit 'Chernobyl' Mestnogo Mashtaba, Ili Chto Skryvaet Minoborony Ot Gosatomnadzora
January 5: 'Russkii Sled' Vedet K BND?
January 11: Sen. Lugar: Nuke Smuggling Should be Pres. Campaign Issue
January 12: High-Tech Investments Needed To Counter Smuggled Weapons
January 17: Zri Vnutr!
January 18: Iraq, Iran Secretly Buying On Nuclear Market
January 20: Gadania Na Radioaktivnoy Gushche
January 21: Ispanskii Sled B Myunkhenskom Dele
January 25: Vse Khorosho, Chto Khorosho Konchaetsya
January 27: Zhurnalisty Razoblachayut Spetssluzhby
January 31: In Belarus
January 31: U.S.-EU Expand Joint Support For Programs In Post-Soviet States
February: Informatsiya
January 31-February 6: UI News Briefing - Uranium Seizures
February 1996: The Clear and Present Danger of Nuclear Weapons Grade Fissile Materials
February 1: Investigators Deny Iran Smuggled Weapons Material From Germany
February 7: FBI To Train In Kazakhstani Officials To Fight Crime
February 8: Pokhishchen Tsezii-137
February 13: 100 Kilos Of Radioactive Material Seized In Lithuania
February 15: Primakov Confirms To Germany: Munich Plutonium From Obninsk
February 9-16: Okhotniki Smertelnogo Promysla
February 22: Ne Igolka V Sene, No Nayti Trudno
February 26: Stung By A Nuclear Sting
February 27: Nunn-Lugar Activities To Improve Fissile Material protection, Control, and Accountability in the Former Soviet Union
February 28: Securing Fissile Material In The Former Soviet Union
February 29: Nuclear Theft Potential Worries U.S.
March: Nuclear Nonproliferation: Status of U.S. Efforts to Improve Nuclear Material Control in Newly Independent States
March: Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy
March: Chechenskiy Konflikt I Ralnaya Ugroza Yadernogo Terrorizma
March: Problemy Yadernogo Terrorizma
March: Informatsiya
March 1: Vot Tak Navar!
March 4: Global Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Subcommittee To Hold Series Of Hearings In March
March 5: Itar-Tass Report on Osmium Smuggling in Moldova
March 6: Radioactive Metal Spreads Across Lithuania: Inhabitants Of Naunas region Steal Radioactive Find
March 7: BND, LKA Withheld Transcript In Plutonium Scandal
March 8: A Lost Atomic Fuel Cassette Found At The Ignalina Atomic Power Station
March 8: Nuclear Nonproliferation: Status Of U.S. Efforts To Improve Nuclear Materials Controls In Newly Independent States
March 10: LEU Seized in Antalya
March 11: Two Detained For Nuclear Smuggling In Romania
March 13: Radioactive Cesium-137 Stolen From Dneprodzerszinsk Factory
March 13: Opening Statement of Senator Sam Nunn
March 13: Oral Presentation of Dr. William Potter
March 13: Testimony of Harold J. Johnson
March 13: Testimony of Joshua Handler
March 13: Statement of Andrei Glukhov
March 14: V Vasiginase Naydena Chast Ukradennoi S Yadernym Toplivom
March 14: Poor Security At Nuclear Sites In Former Soviet Union
March 15: Romania Police Reveal Radioactive Smuggling Case
March 16: Uchastnik Afery S Plutoniem Priznalsya V Prichastnosti k Provokatsii
March 19: Germany To Send Plutonium To Russia For Testing
March 20: The Threat of Nuclear Diversion
March 20: Lugar Calls For Legislation To Address Nuclear Issue
March 21: With Spring Thaw Dig To Begin For Stolen Ignalina Assembly
March 22: Press Reacts To Iranian Terror Ties, Israeli Withdrawal
March 22: The Threat Of Nuclear Diversion: The Intelligence Community Response
March 22: Statement of Charles B. Curtis, Deputy Secretary of Energy
March 22: Statement of Connie Fenchel
March 22: Hearings on Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
March 24: Pochti Detektivnaya Istoriya
March 26: Krupnye Posledstviya 'Malenkogo' ChP
March 27: Police Find Stolen Cesium-137 Capsule
March 27: Chechnya's Bashayev-We Have An Atomic Bomb
March 28: Iranians 'Buying Ex-Soviet Uranium'
Spring: Demokratizatsiya Interview With Dzhokar Dudayev
April: The G-7 Summit On Nuclear Safety And Security: A Summit Primer
April: Poderzhanye Yadernye Bomby So Sklada V Moskve
April: Safeguards And Illicit Nuclear Trafficking: Towards More Effective Control
April: Illicit Trafficking
April: Nuclear Smuggling, Terrorism Poses Greatest Threat To U.S.: Nuclear Summit Falls Short, Lugar Calls Presidential Leadership Imperative
April 4: Uran Ne Kradut V Pervy Raz
April 4: EU, U.S. To Help Russia Prevent Smuggling Of Nuclear Materials
April 5: Sources Say Stocks Of Radioactive Uranium-235 Disappearing
April 5: Sens. Lugar, Nunn, Roth To Develop Program To Address Nuke Security
April 5: Clinton Heels To Congress On Funds For Soviet Weapons Dismantlement
April 6: The Amigos of the Nuclear Mafia
April 8: Russia, U.S. To Create System To Prevent Theft Of Nuclear Materials
April 9: Uran-235 Tyanet Na Tsentner
April 9: Pakistan
April 10: Russia To Accuse U.S. Of Nuclear Safety Violations
April 10: Minatom Uveren: Utechek Net
June 24: Bribes, Threats `Tested' Nuclear Theft Detectives
April 1921-1996: Itogi Podgotovit Rano
April 12: S Yadernoi Kontrabandoi Budut Borotsya Yaderno- fizicheskimi Metodami
April 16: Atomnye Bomby Iz Ukradenogo Urana?
April 16: Interview With Viktor Mikhaylov
April 17: Ekspert Po Yadernomy Nerasprostraneniyu Potter O Predstoyashchei Moskovskoi Vstreche V Verkhakh Po Voprosam Yadernoi Bezopasnosti
April 17: Yadernoi Smertyu Torguyut Na Razves
April 17: Russia's Nuclear Sieve
April 19: Presidential Guard Chief Not Involved In Nuclear Smuggling
April 19: In The CIS
April 19-26: Yadernye Dary Danaytsev
April 20: G7 To Act On Nuclear Smuggling
April 20: Russia Struggles In Long Race To Prevent An Atomic Theft
April 20: Text Of Moscow Statement On Nuclear Trafficking
April 22: V Krasnoyarske Obnaruzhen Konteyner C Radioaktivnymi Otkhodami
April 22: Don't Cloud Over The Nuclear Threat
April 23: The Power Factor is the Most Dangerous in Nuclear Questions
April 23: Lyubaya doza radiatsii ugrozhaet zhizni cheloveka
April 24: Summit Does Produce Anti- Smuggling Program
April 25: Village Shattered By Mafia's Radioactive War
April 28: Korabl Tonet. Mafiya Plyvet?
April 29: Weapons of Mass Destruction And Cooperative Threat Reduction
May: Intervyu Mesyatsa: Demontazh Odnovo Yadernogo Boyezaryada Obkhoditsya Rossii V 10-15 Tysyach Dollarov
May: Kontrrazedke Ne Khvataet Inostrannykh Shpionov. Poetomu Khvatyut Svoikh
May: Arestovan Ne Ucheny I Ne Za Eksport
May 1: Yadernaya Bezopasnost V Voyuyushchey Strane, Kotoraya Gotovitsya K Prezidentskim Vyboram
May 4: Saddam Conspiracy
May 7: Seized Uranium Was To Be Exchanged For Drugs In Nigeria
May 7: Yaderniy Samogonshchik, Popalsya
May 7: Uranium Smugglers Apprehended In Kazakhstan
May 10: Bonn Anticipates Russian Nuclear Smuggling
May 12: Ni Atomnuyu Bombu, Ni Rodinu Krasnoyarskie Fiziki Ne Prodavali
May 13: IRA Linked to British Spy Row
May 13: 'Estonian Trail' Of Ireland's Terrorists: Russia's Special Services Charge Kaitseliit With Contacts With IRA
May 15: Beryllium From LAIB Kept Somewhere in Lithuania
May 16: Zirconium, Not Fissile Material, Reported Missing At Krasnoyarsk
May 17: U.S. State Dept. Takes Over Defense Conversion, Export Control
May 18: Chernobyl...Pod Divanom
May 18: Tbilisi First Program Television Network Report on Smuggling
May 20: Six Suspected Dealers, 13 Kilos Of Radioactive Material Detained in Lithuania
May 23: Report On The Work Of The Slovak Information Service (SIS)
May 26: Metal Workers Caught With 100 Kg Stolen Uranium-235
May 26: V Norvegii Propali 2,1 Tonny Urana
May 28: Special Services are Becoming More Active
May 28: Dzhini Iz Butylki Vypushchen. Shutit S Nim Ne Stoit
June: Mafiya: Organized Crime in Russia
June 5: Zhirinovsky Wanted For Questioning
June 6: Tseziy Ha Balkonye, Uran - B Ogorode
June 7: Mindestans Drei Beteiligte Am Atom- Deal
June 8: Kazakhi Zaarkanili Mirny Atom
June 9: Nedelya
June 10: Ukraine And Libya Forge Strategic Alliance
June 10: Illegal Imports of Radioactive Metal Noted
June 11: Report on Technology Transfer to Libya
June 15: If a Gram of Plutonium Were Put Under a Train....
June 18: Opasnaya Nakhodka
June 18: Privet Iz Afriky
June 20: Russia-Nordic Nuclear Talks
June 20: Terrorism - Nuclear Blackmail in Germany
June 24: Nuclear Security and Gosatomnadzor
June 25: Interview of Donetsk Oblast Procuracy Official V.V. Murza: What Can Customs Do
June 26: Wrap Up
June 26: New Legislation Would Grant $235 Million For Defense Against Weapons Of Mass Destruction
June 27: IAEA Requests Satellite Photos for Proliferation Control
July 1: Contraband Uranium Passed Through Italy
July 2: Stolen Uranium `Did Not Come From Ignalina,'' 1800 GMT
July 3: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
July 8: The Russian Connection
July 11: Uranium-238 Being Traded In Kazan
July 11: Security: The Half-Life Decay of the Deal
July 20: U.S. To Help Russia Upgrade Control Over Nuclear Substances
July 24: Uran Iz Sarkoflaga `Gulyal' po Kiyevu
August 1910-1996: The Post- Soviet Nuclear Proliferation Challenge
August: Trilateral Cooperation To Prevent Smuggling Of Fissionable Material
August 1: Five Detained For Smuggling Nuclear Materials Near Minsk
August 2: V kazhdom dome - mirniy atom?
August 6: Nuclear Terrorism: Reality and Myths
August 14: Nuclear Terrorism A Growing Security Threat-Report
August 16: U Perekupshchikov Nashli 2 Kilogramma Urana
August 17: Samoubiytsy
August 19: Security Officials Deny Uranium Smuggling Report
August 19: Information from the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Reactor Safety, Germany
August 24: BND Operatives Probed for Perjury In Plutonium Smuggling Entrapment
August 25: Turkey: Twenty Containers of Mustard Gas Seized
August 28: Ukraine: Explosives Discovered On Plane En Route To Azerbaijan
August 31: Smertonosniy Gruz Dlya Ukrainy
August 31: Pokhititelyam urana s ChAES vyneseny prigovory
Fall: Not The Usual Suspects
Fall: Eurasia - Special Section
Fall: Smuggling: Arms, Nuclear Technology and Materials, and Aliens
Fall: Smuggling Nuclear Materials
September-October: Smoke, But No Fire
September: Prospects for Unsanctioned Use of Russian Nuclear Weapons
September 1: 'Large Quantity' Of Uranium Stolen In Abkhazia
September 2: IAEA Asks Pakistan To Curb Its N Pursuits
September 6: Prervannyy transit: skandalniy `ulov' lvovskoy tamozhni
September 8: Yadernye arsenaly dlya terroristov
September 12: Mirnyy atom nashli na sklade
September 12: Po-prezhnemu ne utikhayut provokatsii na yadernom rynke
September 20: Missile Disaster Wake-up Call
September 22: Plan To Buy Russia's Uranium Falters
September 26: Rossiya V Zerkale Pressy: Pokhishchen radioaktivniy datchik
September 26: Munich Plutonium Sample Taken To Moscow for Testing
Third Quarter: International Newsbriefs: IAEA Annual Report for 1995
October 1: Germany Sends Sample of Seized Radioactive Material
October 3: U.S. Position At Upcoming G-7 Technical Seminar On Disposition Of Military Plutonium
October 7: Gorbachev Gives Alert On Cutting Back Nukes
October 8: A Vot Sever Budet Chishche
October 8: Uran Kak Sredstvo Propitaniya
October 10: No End Seen In Decline Of Russian Armed Forces
October 11: BND Official: Plutonium From Russian Plants
October 11: Utechka Urana Mozhet Povlech Mezhdunarodnaya Skandala, A Utechka Informatsii - Mezhdunarodnuyu Pomoshch
October 13: Radioactive Scrap Metal Intercepted On Czech- German Border
October 14: Arms Hemorrhage Feared In Russian Crisis
October 14: Russian, Ukrainian Arrested For Plutonium Smuggling
October 19: Zagovor Protiv Rossii
October 23: CIA Right to Worry about Russia Nuclear Arms Exports
October 24: Kazakh Uranium Is Shy Enough For Two Bombs
October 26: Chernobyl Workers Arrested Trying To Sell 5.5 kg Of Uranium
October 28: Commentary Views Disagreement With U.S. On Kazakh Uranium
October 31: Police Find Some Of Nuclear Fuel Stolen From Ignalina
October 30-November 5: Chechen Terrorism To Go Nuclear?
November 7: Georgian Agents Planned To Sell Antimony To PKK
November 10: Russian Nuclear Cache 'Lost'
November 12: IAEA to Help in Prevention of Nuclear Smuggling
November 13: Nuclear Warheads Stored in Dniester Said Dangerous
November 15: Luchansky Interviewed on Mafia, Nordex
November 15: No Surprise: Border Forces Want More Money
November 18: Latvian, Russian Border Guards Reach Agreement
November 23: 1995 Theft of Beryllium Shipment From Arlanda
November 25: Plot to Smuggle Uranium from Russia Foiled
November 27: Krupnaya Krazha Radioactivnykh Materialov
December: Chto Mozhet Sposobstvovat Yadernomu Rasprostraneniyu
December 3: Ukradennuyu Radiatsiyu Vernuli Na Mesto
December 3: Prestupniki Mogli Pogruzit V Samolet Dazhe Atomnuyu Bombu
December 5: Kazakhstani Uranium Thieves On Trial
December 16: Isperikh Radioactive Containers Originated Abroad
December 17: Police Arrest Uranium Traffickers in Bucharest
December 17: Lithuanian President Calls for War Against Smuggling
December 18: Achievements of SBU Military Counterintelligence Noted
December 20: Investigation Of Stolen Radioactive Containers Reported
December 23: Ukraine Denies Involvement in Uranium Smuggling Affair
December 25: FSB Investigation of Radioactive Concentrates
December 26: Regulations For Registering Nuclear Materials Approved
December 30: Fissile Material Seized in Romania Low-Grade, Unrelated To Weapon Stocks
Winter 1996-1997: The Changing Proliferation Threat

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The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present.