Georgia details Nuclear Smuggling

This article is about the problem of nuclear smuggling. Recently in Georgia two Armenians were arrested and on them they found two Marlboro Red cigarette boxes that contained nuclear bomb grade uranium encased in lead. This alone shows how much of a problem this nuclear smuggling could be. Take for example an incredibly wealthy person, say that this incredibly wealthy person was also a very bad person and had very bad intentions, they might be able to get their hands on large amounts of this smuggled uranium. If it ever ends up in the hands of a terrorist group, the world could potentially be doomed. Archil Pavlenishvili said, "The dangerous thing is that there might be more material out there somewhere." Pavlenishvili is the chief of Georgia's nuclear smuggling unit. When thinking about how much more there is of this uranium that most anyone can get their hands on you have to think about what we talked about in class and the illicit global market, "The mere existence of a typical black-market price is a worrisome sign of the supply and demand in the illicit trading of nuclear materials." I think this can be a huge problem and we really need to do something to stop it. If the wrong people get their hands on it, there is a potential that very bad things could happen to the entire world.

By Nick Santos