Pete Domenici: “within the last 3 or 4 days, a very interesting report has been forthcoming. I believe it is a godsend for us. It is…”

“within the last 3 or 4 days, a very interesting report has been forthcoming. I believe it is a godsend for us. It is called ``A Nuclear Black Market,'' and it was a report issued under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It is very significant, because many of the participants in this study have great credibility with many Senators with reference to issues of this type. Arnaud De Borchgrave, who many know as former editor of the Washington Times, was the project director of this report. I am not going to make it a part of the Record; I am merely going to suggest to those who wonder whether this amendment moves us in the right direction, I suggest if they want the recommendations of this group, headed by the person that I just talked about, under the auspices of a very reliable think-tank group and containing the following prognosis-- and if this does not sound something like the speeches just given by Senators Nunn and Lugar--let me share it with you. The prognosis says--and that is all I will read and urge that Senators or their staffs interested should read it--the prognosis says: In the near term, several key variables in the nuclear smuggling equation appear likely to remain bad or may even worsen. Barring an unlikely economic turnaround in the former Soviet Union, struggling nuclear workers will continue to be tempted to steal material.…”