Scientist Charged With Nuke Smuggling

Security agents arrested a scientist suspected of smuggling more than 2 pounds of materials that could be used for nuclear weapons production, official said Tuesday.

“It was not uranium, plutonium or something like that,” said Anatoly Samkov, the head of the Krasnoyarsk regional department of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

Samkov told the Interfax news agency that the material in question could be used for producing components of nuclear weapons, such as “coating or tubes.”