>>Chris;
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>>Excuse the change of subject but how many nuclear bombs and enriched uranium are missing or not accounted for by the prior USSR and what remains of it today? That is scary! A friend of mine was a U.S. Inspector in Russia.
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>It is scary. But I am not sure if you are blaming the U.S. for this or not. That seems to be a common thread in some of the posts here :-). To the best of my knowledge, all our nukes and fissible materials are accounted for. In fact, I beleve we have given the former states of the Soviet Union some aid to help contain these materials.

Chris;

From what I know Russia (USSR, etc.) either has a terrible method of tracking nuclear material or they give or sell it to other countries. I am not talking about small amounts either.

The U.S. Inspectors who went to Russia could not account for nuclear material that was inventoried in Russia. Now what do you do?

By the way do you think that Russia no longer has ICBM’s pointed at us from ground sites? That is something I do not know, however, in 1999 we sent over about 135 Main Frame programmers to help with the Y2K problem. It seems that the USSR used main frame computers ”copied” from U.S. sources from 1960's designs, and only used 2 digits for the year. There was concern that the ICBM’s might launch at Y2K.

I still think a nuclear missile launched from a satellite would be a good way to deploy a nuclear warhead or multiple warhead device. Or just rent a 1 1/2 ton van and park it in the middle of a city with a nuclear device. The possibilities are almost endless.

Tom