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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19NUKES FOR SALE, NO MONEY DOWN
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- In the midst of Soviet disunion, what's going to happen
- to the nukes? Money-hungry military officers in some hot spots
- are already renting armored personnel carriers and other
- weaponry to local militias with turf to protect. But they could
- probably get much steeper prices from more ambitious
- troublemakers abroad, especially those looking for really
- hard-to-find goods. "In this country at this time," says a
- Soviet historian, "anything can happen. If you can come up with
- a guarantee of $2 million, hard currency, I wager that I can put
- you in touch with somebody who would sell you a nuclear
- missile." But how would the buyer get it out of the country?
- "Easy," he says. "Launch it."
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