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Securing the Bomb 2007

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Stolen HEU

Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Stolen HEU
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Theft and smuggling of potential nuclear bomb material is not a hypothetical worry but an ongoing reality — the International Atomic Energy Agency has documented 15 cases involving seizure of stolen HEU or plutonium. As recently as February 2006, a Russian man was arrested in a sting operation in Tbilisi, Georgia trying to sell nearly 80 grams of 89% enriched HEU. Here, a monitor shows the radiation from a small container of HEU seized in Bulgaria in 1999. For more on nuclear smuggling cases, check out the "NIS Nuclear Trafficking Database," or, for a detailed review of what is known and what is not known from the confirmed cases, see "Illicit Trafficking in Radioactive Materials," in International Institute for Strategic Studies, Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan, and the Rise of Proliferation Networks (London: IISS, 2007).

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