Posted on 03/01/2005 11:56:41 AM PST by Pendragon_6
Boris Berezovsky has claimed that Chechen rebels possess a nuclear weapon.
“It is a small portable device which had not been used until now for only one reason: because some necessary element was missing,” the exiled Russian oligarch told Komsomolskaya Pravda, citing “credible sources.”
Berezovsky said he wrote a letter to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) about this danger last autumn.
Asked to respond to Berezovsky's claims about a Chechen nuke, a security official told the newspaper, “We do not believe it necessary to comment on statements, especially delirious ones, made by people who are on the international wanted list.”
But the Berezovsky claim matches that of U.S. security officials, who have said that al-Qaida has obtained a small nuclear device -- perhaps a “suitcase nuke” from the Russian arsenal. Sources have claimed that the weapons cannot be detonated because the trigger mechanism is not working.
Perhaps just maybe, this will cause Putin to rethink his deal with Iran.
Pinging to post # 12...
Tried, and successful?
Me too. I live in the middle of nowhere by design.
Possible, however, it would be more likely for Russia to claim that they lost one or more nukes, and secretly sell / proliferate them (or hide them internally). The best (worst?) treaty cheaters the world has ever known - even more skilled at it than Weimar Germany was.
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