Russia and Georgia clash over (highly enriched) uranium (smuggling)

[jpak]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/23/russia-georgia-uranium-mikheil-saakashvili

A new row has erupted in the Caucasus after Georgia's president blamed Russia for a foiled attempt last month to smuggle highly enriched uranium across the volatile border.

Moscow today accused Mikheil Saakashvili of lying after he declared that such nuclear seizures have been "mostly from the direction of Russia".

"This is not the first time Saakashvili has been caught red-handed while making false statements," the Russian foreign ministry spokesman Igor Lyakin-Frolov said, according to the Associated Press. "He shouldn't present a lie as the truth."
The row has inflamed longstanding tensions that erupted into open warfare in 2008 over control of South Ossetia, a pro-Russian separatist enclave inside Georgia.

While not explicitly pointing the finger at Moscow, Saakashvili linked the most recent case – and previous uranium smuggling incidents in 2003 and 2006 – to the continued Russian military presence in South Ossetia and another enclave, Abkhazia, since the conflict. All but one of the border crossings between Russia and Georgia run through the two enclaves. "If you are legally in occupation then you are responsible for controlling proliferation," Saakashvili told AP this week.

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[ConcernedCanuk]

1. problem with the Soviet Union breaking up - WHERE ARE ALL THE NUKES?

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USA's powers that be prayed for, connived for, and aided and abetted the breakup of the Soviet Union

they got it

but sorta forgot sumthing

WHO'S GONNA CONTROL THE NUKES??

well

now we know

noone,

and/or anyone.

USA may have made a quick stop to the war with Japan with it's dropping of the Atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

but by doing so

the USA proliferated the idea, and technology for a global warfare of mass destruction.

One may argue that if the USA hadn't developed and used atomic bombs on innocent civilians, others would have.

But the fact is

THE USA DID DO IT!!

and are threatening to do it again.

no other nation has done this

yet.