Moscow
The Russian military this week practiced ways to thwart a terrorist attempt to steal a nuclear weapon. NATO officials were invited to watch the training simulations, as part of a Russian effort to assure the world that terrorists could not get their hands on Russian nuclear bombs. “In different regions of the world, the myth is propagated that Russian nuclear weapons are guarded badly and weakly,” said Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. Fears that terrorists could acquire “suitcase nukes” have circulated since 1997, when a prominent Russian general claimed that 84 such bombs had gone missing. Ivanov said all 6,000 nuclear warheads were accounted for.
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