We're not getting anywhere. Iran is violating all of the norms. Unless we can solve this problem, we don't see how our recommendations for expanding the programs can be accomplished. The committee found that more than 1,000 metric tons of highly enriched uranium and at least 150 metric tons of weapons grade plutonium remained in the Russian weapons complex. But Mr. Baker and Mr. Cutler agreed that one of their most worrisome findings was that no one seemed to know precisely how much fissile material remained in Russia.
Transparency is a major issue.
This month, the report said, the Russian Federal Security Bureau arrested four sailors at a nuclear submarine base on the Kamchatka Peninsula and found a cache of precious metals and radioactive material that they had stolen from a safe in their sub. In 1998, a conspiracy at a complex of the Atomic Energy Ministry was uncovered. Individuals were trying to steal fissile material, the report said. In December 1998, an employee at a nuclear laboratory in Sarov was arrested. The employee was trying to sell documents on nuclear weapons designs to agents of Iraq and Afghanistan, the report said.