... . (6) The collapse of the Soviet Union has made smuggling radioactive materials from Russia and its former territories frightingly easy. In September 1997, a former Russian general, and top security advisor to Boris Yeltsin, Alexander Lebed, told CBS program 60 Minutes that ten suitcase sized nuclear bombs were missing from the nuclear arsenal. Each is a one-kiloton bomb, capable of killing 100,000 people ... ...

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... peacefully overthrown and in 1990 East and West Germany re-united. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed. Gorbachev struggled to stay in power and eventually resigned on Christmas Day, 1991. Boris Yeltsin took power and introduced democracy to Russia. The Cold War was well and truly over. Work on Space Station Freedom was proving expensive and slow. In 1988 measures were taken ... ...

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... at home. A military coup was attempted by a group of anti-reformists. Leaders of the army, the KGB and the Interior Ministry placed Gorbachev under arrest and took over the government. Boris Yeltsin, a supporter of immediate reform, called on the people to resist the coup. Demonstrations and strikes broke out across the country and the coup collapsed. Reformists took control and the final ... ...

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