THE nuclear arms race has left the world with a terrifying legacy: 3 million
kilograms of bomb-grade plutonium and uranium. A terrorist would need no more
than a few kilograms to make a devastating bomb, so you’d think this material
would be kept under guard in secure military installations. You’d think so, but
you’d be wrong.
Radioactive materials are going missing, border controls are almost
non-existent, monitoring equipment doesn’t work and smuggling is rife. This was
the frightening picture painted at a conference of nuclear experts in Stockholm
earlier this month organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
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