| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
ix, 288 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Black January -- 2. Z Division -- 3. The new Russia -- 4. Jessica Stern -- 5. The Iceberg club -- 6. Mirage gold -- 7. The Vienna connection -- 8. Q clearance -- 9. Sapphire --10. Mikhailov's secret deal -- 11. The Oval Office -- 12. The Phoenix -- 13. One point safe -- 14. Wild atom -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the cold war may have come to an end. But the deadly Soviet nuclear arsenal with thousands of warheads and hundreds of tons of plutonium, continues to sit virtually unguarded, presenting the world with a new and even more terrifying nuclear threat. And it's not just criminals, extremists, or terrorists who are now in a position to place us all at risk. It is also Russia's high military command, who see their colleagues in other departments making millions off the privatization of industry; and it's the officers in charge of underguarded weapons stockpiles, unable to compete with the post-Communist new rich; and it's the very guards manning the night watch, whose bellies ache from hunger. From the vaults of the National Security Council to the headquarters of the mysterious Twelfth Department in the Russian Ministry of Defense, the authors take the reader on a tour of deadly potentialities: couriers crossing Central Europe with suitcases full of materials more lethal than any virus; a Siberian warehouse littered with the raw material of twenty-three thousand Hiroshimas; the fanatical terrorist who has already built one radioactive bomb. Then it is revealed how U.S. intelligence has realized with horror that among those involved in the business of nuclear smuggling is an organization born out of the old KGB, headed by a man described by one high-ranking official as "the most dangerous man in the world." |
| Subject |
Nuclear weapons -- Russia (Federation)
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Nuclear weapons plants -- Russia (Federation) -- Security measures.
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Russia (Federation)
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Smuggling -- Russia (Federation)
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| Added Author |
Cockburn, Leslie.
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| ISBN |
0385485603 |
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