One Point Safe
by Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
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When the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, it exposed a crumbling empire littered with hundreds of tonnes of nuclear material and thousands of nuclear weapons. Across Russia and the former Soviet Union, stocks of plutonium and bomb-grade uranium, as well as a wide variety of nuclear landmines, artillery shells and missile warheads were portable enough to be carried by just three people. The short-range missile warheads, small nuclear bombs, landmines and torpedo warheads could be show more lifted and carried by a single person and were small enough to fit into a backpack or trunk. In this account, journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn show that prospect criminals, extremists or terrorists might easily obtain these weapons, and that the threat from nuclear materials is dangerously real. show lessTags
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- Matt Bunn; Bill Burns; Bill Clinton; Jerry Dzakowic; Mikhail Gorbachev; Victor Mikhailov (show all 8); Jessica Stern; Boris Yeltsin
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- The Peacemaker (1997 | IMDb)
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- For Chloe, Olivia and Charlie
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 363.17 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Other social problems and services Public safety programs Hazardous materials
- LCC
- UA770 .C628 — Military Science Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation By region or country
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