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So you thought that the end of the Cold War erased the threat of nuclear annihilation? Think again; according to Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, authors of One Point Safe, the world is a more dangerous place than ever. In 1993, in the Ural Mountains, two nuclear warheads disappeared from a weapons plant, and it took three days for officials to notice; in Moscow, more than 80 small bombs are missing from a nuclear arsenal. Who has these weapons? How did they get them? What is the West is doing about it? These questions are at the heart of the Cockburns' story, a chilling tale of the Russian mafia, international terrorists, and a small, heroic band of Washington bureaucrats struggling to make the West come to terms with the threat it faces. One Point Safe often reads like a thriller, filled with hair-raising tales of nuclear thefts dating back more than 20 years. Descriptions of the 1994 U.S. effort to document the presence of nuclear components in Iraq is particularly vivid, while the Cockburns' behind-the-scenes tour of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's top-secret world is eye-opening, to say the least.
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