The Russian connection. (illegal sale of beryllium and other nuclear materials by organized crime syndicates) (includes related article on crime in Yekaterinburg, Russia)(Cover Story) U.S. News & World Report | October 23, 1995| | COPYRIGHT 1995 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The end was breathtaking. For four decades, the world lived under the threat of nuclear holocaust. Then the Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union came next. Suddenly, superpower missiles were no longer targeted at cities. The prospect of Armageddon dimmed.

Nuclear nightmares do not die, however; they change. From the chilling cold war doctrine of mutually assured destruction comes a new nuclear paradox. Instead of a hostile Soviet superpower, with nuclear weapons under tight totalitarian control, the world now confronts a new, more benign Russia. Yet the new Russia is, in ...

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