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March 25, 2004
Ukrainian Missiles Missing?

The BBC has a disturbing report from the Ukraine about their inability to account for several hundred ballistic missiles that were decommissioned after the collapse of the Soviet Union:

Ukrainian Defence Minister Yevhen Marchuk has said that several hundred of his country's missiles are unaccounted for. The weapons were supposed to have been decommissioned in the years that followed the break-up of the USSR. But it is now being claimed that there is no record of them being destroyed. ... "Each of the missiles contained gold, silver, platinum. But where are the results of their recycling?" he asked.

Call me a worry-wart if you will, but I hardly think that the most pressing issue of losing several hundred ballistic missiles is their potential recycling revenue. I'm a bit more concerned about the warheads and the fuel that those missiles carried, either or both of which may have wound up in the hands of people who would use them to carry on massive "recycling" projects of their own -- like "recycling" building materials in New York, London, Tel Aviv, along with "recycling" the millions of people that live there.

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Posted by Ed Morrissey at March 25, 2004 8:32 AM

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