Don’t Bomb Iran

Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick reports a Russian report that 250 Ukrainian nuclear weapons were not returned to Russia at the end of the cold war, and “are thought” to have been sold to Iran.Click here for original story and extract below

Column One: The rise of the Islamist axis
By Caroline Glick

Apr. 6, 2006 21:33

On Monday, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that part of Ukraine’s Soviet-era nuclear arsenal may well have found its way to Iran. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainians agreed to transfer the Soviet nuclear arsenal that remained in Ukraine after its independence to Russia. According to Novaya Gazeta, some 250 nuclear warheads never made it to Russia and are thought to have been sent to Iran instead. The report further noted that the warheads will remain operational until 2010.

Responding to the report, Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia’s deputy defense minister and the chief of General Staff, said, “Russia’s General Staff has no information about whether Ukraine has given 250 nuclear warheads to Iran or not.”