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iiclr-17596	Fugal, Jeffrey B.	A Brief Survey of the Smuggling of Fissile Material: An Embryonic Phenomena with a Terrifying Future in the European Community	1995	30	.pdf	application/pdf	14116	833	54	In fact, since the fall of 1992, there have [only] been five serious cases of diversion of weapons-usable fissile material the rest have either been hoaxes or have involved material that is not weapons-grade.' Nevertheless, [t]he fact that a large fraction of the reports of nuclear smuggling have been scams involving material with no relevance to nuclear weapons, should not blind us to the seriousness of the smaller but still significant number of cases that have involved nuclear weapons materials. ' 9 The fall of the Iron Curtain and the loosening of internal borders within the (European) Union has resulted in a freer and more deregulated environment, which has created the perfect breeding ground for organized crime syndicates and their illicit activities. People are generally more impressed by what nuclear weapons can do to cities than by what such weapons might accomplish to reverse the military outcome on potential battlefields.	cache/iiclr-17596.pdf	txt/iiclr-17596.txt