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Source: The National Post
Published: Dec 21, 1999 Author: Deroy Murdoch
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Finding Russia's lost radioactive luggage
Suitcase nukes may be in the hands of America's enemies
Deroy Murdock
National Post
What could be more devastating than two jars of nitroglycerine
and more than 100 pounds of other explosives smuggled across the
Canada-U.S. border by a suspected Algerian terrorist? Try a
suitcase-sized atomic bomb. Better yet, try 84 of them.
According to Curt Weldon, a Republican congressman, the former
Soviet Union produced 132 10-kiloton suitcase nukes. Today,
Russia can account for only 48. Where are the other 84? The
Clinton-Gore administration doesn't know and, outrageously,
doesn't seem to care.
Many hawks correctly advocate a ballistic missile defence system
to protect the United States from incoming nuclear rockets. These
could be launched deliberately or accidentally by Russia, China,
Pakistan or by smaller renegade nations such as North Korea, Iraq
or, someday, maybe even Iran. If an ICBM hurtled toward San
Diego, Denver or Washington, for instance, Americans could do
little more than click on the carnage on CNN.
Equally unacceptable, though likely tougher to combat, would be
an atomic device as nondescript as a Samsonite valise. It could
be carried down the street, then nonchalantly deposited at the
Plaza Hotel's coat check in Manhattan or nestled in the basement
of Chicago's Sears Tower. A few hours later, the Big Apple or the
Windy City would resemble Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945.
This radioactive luggage already could be in the possession of
people hostile to the United States. Even more worrisome, these
atomic bags apparently are on U.S. soil today.
The files of Vassiliy Mitrokhin, the KGB's former chief
archivist, offers compelling evidence that this lethal luggage
has already arrived. For more than two decades, Mr. Mitrokhin
hand-copied top-secret Soviet documents at the espionage agency's
Moscow headquarters and smuggled his notes out under his clothing
after work. He regularly hid these papers beneath his dacha's
floorboards. In 1992, he defected to Britain with this
intelligence bonanza.
Mr. Mitrokhin's records indicated that Soviet operatives buried
weapons in booby-trapped sites in Switzerland and Belgium in case
of conflict. As Mr. Weldon explained on the House floor this
fall: "The Swiss government and the Belgian government dug up
these sites, and exactly where the Mitrokhin files said they
would be, they found the military hardware that the Soviet Union
had placed there without those countries having any idea of what
the Soviets had done."
Mr. Mitrokhin has corroborated previous claims by Russian General
Alexander Lebed, the KGB's one-time top man in London, Oleg
Gordievsky, and former high-level military spy Stanislav Lunev.
They said that to prepare for possible hostilities with the
United States, the KGB pre-deployed nuclear suitcases somewhere
near Brainerd, Minnesota, in Montana, beside a Texas oil pipeline
and adjacent to harbours in California and New York City. Alas,
Mr. Mitrokhin was unable to capture more specific data.
Has the U.S. administration queried Moscow for the locations of
these weapons since they came to light around 1992?
"No, we have not," according to Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral
Craig Quigley. After speaking with three FBI officials, Mr.
Weldon said, "their answer was that our government has not yet
asked the Russian government to give us the exact locations of
these sites." Mr. Weldon and Democratic congressman James
Oberstar jointly wrote Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on
Oct. 22 "to inquire whether the United States government has ever
asked the Russian government to provide detailed site information
on pre-deployed weapons." The congressmen still are waiting for
Ms. Albright's answer.
"I am outraged that we have not asked that question," Mr. Weldon
said. "This administration perhaps fears that when we start to
dig up all over America locations of equipment that we know have
been there for three or perhaps seven years, there are going to
be a lot of people in this country who are going to start to ask
some very difficult questions of their elected leaders."
The Clinton administration commits gross negligence every day it
fails even to attempt to reduce or eliminate the risks posed by
these mini-weapons of mass destruction. White House and State
Department officials must get with it and press the Kremlin to
identify any suitcase nukes or related instruments stashed in
U.S. hideaways. Additionally, any such weapons wandering around
Russia should be found and, if necessary, purchased from Moscow
and dismantled under international inspection. In terms of
non-bang for the buck, this would be a higher-yield investment
than next year's entire defence budget.
If the ever-accommodating Bill Clinton and Al Gore do not
consider this a grave national security matter, perhaps they
would find it motivating to think of nuclear suitcases as a clear
and present danger to dozens, even hundreds, of electoral votes.
Thsi story is hard to believe. If 84 of these "suitcase nukes"
did actually exist, and are missing, and are still capable of
being detonated, you have to ask yourself why none have surfaced.
And even if they did exist and some organization got hold of a
few, what would they do with them? Call up the President and say:
Do such and such, or else?
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