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A trained nuclear engineer with an amount of highly enriched uranium or plutonium about the size of a grapefruit or an orange, together with commercially available material, could fashion a nuclear device that would fit in a van like the one Ramzi Yousef parked in the garage of the World Trade Center in 1993.
Strong reviews for this collection of stories set in Soviet Russia: These "crafty, nerve-rattling tales are among the most unusual and interesting now being written" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Characters range from a nuclear reactor employee who tries to steal and sell the plutonium of the title in order to support his family after he gets radiation poisoning, to a girl who is convinced there is a link between her onset of puberty and the death of Stalin.
At the Los Angeles Times , it's the announcement (made while Al Gore was in Moscow on a state visit) that Russia has promised to stop making weapons-grade plutonium.
The NYT says the summit turned out to have more substantive results than were predicted: an arms accord providing for the sharing of nuclear missile launch warning data and the disposal of bomb-grade plutonium.
And Time discounts the warnings of anti-nuke activists who claim that the 72 pounds of plutonium on NASA's soon-to-be-launched Saturn explorer poses a health hazard.