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> At least I find it strange that Russia would happily see the material handed off like that, and I think it's more likely that all of this happened behind the
by qiskit 5y ago
> At least I find it strange that Russia would happily see the material handed off like that, and I think it's more likely that all of this happened behind the back of Russia.
Why would you be surprised? Russia in the 90s was facing far more pressing problems than military equipment and even nuclear material. I remember reading that we actually paid russia and former soviet nations to keep their nuclear materials secure since much of the former soviet union was in a state of economic collapse in the 90s.
- starwind 5y agoThis was Nunn-Lugar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93Lugar_Cooperative_Threat_Reduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93Lugar_Cooperative... The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) traces its history to this legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Threat_Reduction_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Threat_Reduction_Agenc...