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Article: Combating the threat of nuclear diversion.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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How serious a threat is the potential acquisition of nuclear materials or even nuclear weapons by states hostile to the U.S. or by terrorists intent on staging incidents harmful to American interests? The chilling reality is that nuclear materials and technologies are more accessible now than at any other time in history - due primarily to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the region's worsening economic conditions. This situation is exacerbated by the increasing diffusion of modern technology through the growth of the world market, making it harder to detect illicit diversions of materials and technologies relevant to a nuclear weapons program.
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