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Looks at the problem of safeguarding and disposing of Russia's nuclear stockpile, and argues that terrorists are obtaining nuclear materials
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Leslie Cockburn's coverage of foreign affairs has won her numerous awards, including the Emmy, George Polk and duPont-Columbia Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Reporting, and the National Press Club Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.<br><br>Andrew Cockburn's wide-ranging journalistic career in print and television includes the George Foster Peabody Award-winning documentary <i>The Red Army,</i> and the first detailed description of the terrible 1957 nuclear accident in the Urals. The Cockburns are both contributing editors for <i>Vanity Fair,</i> and are coproducers of the 1997 DreamWorks film <i>The Peacemaker.</i> They live with three children in Washington, D.C.
From the Inside Flap
iet Union collapsed, the cold war may have come to an end. But the deadly Soviet nuclear arsenal--thousands of warheads and hundreds of tons of plutonium--continues to sit virtually unguarded, presenting the world with a new and even more terrifying nuclear threat. And it's not just criminals, extremists, or terrorists who are now in a position to place us all at risk.<br><br>It is also Russia's high military command, who see their colleagues in other departments making millions off the privatization of industry; and it's the officers in charge of underguarded weapons stockpiles, unable to compete with the post-Communist new rich; and it's the very guards manning the night watch, whose bellies ache from hunger. . .<br><br>From the vaults of the National Security Council to the headquarters of the mysterious Twelfth Department in the Russian Ministry of Defense, veteran journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn take the reader on a tour of deadly potentialities: couriers
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