[The_Victor]

Didn't see this at all here. A little old for "breaking news", but still very significant.

[OldFriend]

Russia used the threat of 'disappearing' nuclear material as a way to extort money from us to help them 'protect' the supply. Slick willie was happy to participate in the money laundering scheme!

[Teacher317]

As if we needed any more reason, motivation, or moral high-ground to go after al-Qaeda.

Let's roll.

[Mike Fieschko]

"Weapons-grade and weapons-usable nuclear materials have been stolen from some Russian institutes,"

Someone know the difference(s) between -grade and -usable? A quick google search didn't turn up what they are.

[Dog Gone]

Al-Qaida isn't the only one who probably wanted to get their hands on this stuff. Any of the Axis of Evil would also be prime suspects.

[japaneseghost]

Of course, there's plenty of such material stolen from the US DOD - it only makes page 9 of the NYT.

Hello.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We're going to lose a city. It's only a matter of time. The keys will be how we handle the social chaos and threat of economic collapse that will follow.

[Thud]

xSoviet weapons-grade fissionables had a high level of impurities compared to those of other countries, which meant they decayed to useless crap in 8-12 years and had to be constantly recooked. Which Russia hasn't had been able to do much of in the past ten years for budget reasons.

This story would have been alarming 6-7 years ago. Today it means we should ask, "Was it recooked after 1991?" If it wasn't, any attempt to use it will result in a poisonously messy fizzle at best.

[razorback-bert]

If Arthur Anderson did the audit, we will never know how much is missing.

[pgkdan]

An undetermined amount of weapons-grade nuclear material has been stolen in post-Communist Russia, heightening concerns that some of it could have ended up in the wrong hands, the US intelligence community has concluded.

Gee...if they know the stuff was STOLEN doesn't that kind of automatically mean that it's in the wrong hands???