US, Armenia sign deal to fight nuclear smuggling

US, Armenia sign deal to fight nuclear smuggling

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian signed a deal Monday to fight the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials, the State Department said.

The deal significantly boosts joint US-Armenian "efforts to combat the threat that nuclear or highly radioactive materials could be acquired by terrorists or others who would use them to harm us," it said in a statement.

The agreement spells out the US-Armenian intention to cooperate to boost Armenia'

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Any agreement to help prevent smuggling of radiological substances is good in my book. There have been events of radiological substances being smuggled before. I do not know how many have been stopped.

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