http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1036761/posts "'NUKES' MISSING"
New York Post ^ | 12/09/03 | Post Wire Services
Posted on 12/09/2003 2:09:39 AM PST by kattracks
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "December 9, 2003 -- CHISINAU, Moldova - Dozens of rockets outfitted with so-called "dirty bombs" are missing in a breakaway region of the former Soviet republic of Moldova, an expert said yesterday.
Oazu Nantoi, a political analyst at the nongovernmental Institute for Policy Studies in Chisinau, said he had seen photocopies of Russian military documents that revealed at least 38 dirty-bomb warheads had disappeared from a storage depot near the Trans-Dniester Tiraspol military airport.
Dirty bombs do not make a nuclear explosion, but include radioactive material that is dispersed by the bomb's explosion.
The warheads were designed to be carried on a small, thin rocket, known as the Alazan, which was originally created to destroy hail clouds.
But the military records show that the warheads were packed with radioactive material - making them the world's first surface-to-surface dirty-bomb weapons."