In article ,
Juergen Nieveler wrote:
"James H. Hood" wrote:

IF it's available on the black market. Before the fall of the Soviet
Union

Which has fallen, by the way, with their personnel being courted.

Yep. If you have to decide between starvation and working for dubious
(at best) governments, what would you choose? ;-)

I often wonder wether the Western governments made any serious attempt
to get as many of those scientists into their own labs, or wether
somebody decided "there's no budget for that"...



yes, until Bush was elected. Nunn Lugar legislation was enacted in
1991 and was well funded for 10 years to buy Russian Bad **** to take
it off the market and to pay the saleries of Russian scientists to to
Good Stuff and not turn to the dark side. Bush ahsbeen cutting back
the funding.

http://nunn-lugar.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn-Lugar

http://www.nti.org/e_research/cnwm/o.../cnwm_home.asp

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