61.   Georgian authorities said on Friday that they have kept a close watch on Chkmivadze because he was previously detained by Turkey on suspicion of trading in nuclear material.

62.   Georgian scientists insist the nuclear material did not originate in their country and that Georgia was simply being used as a transit point.

63.   Germany said that three separate shipments of weapons-grade nuclear material from the former Soviet bloc have been seized within the last four months.

64.   Given the lack of information the Russians had about their own inventories of nuclear material, Hibbs suggested investigators were facing an almost impossible task.

65.   German fears escalated after police revealed this week that they seized the largest cache yet of smuggled weapons-grade nuclear material at Munich International Airport last Wednesday.

66.   Growing the outer covering without the inner viral nuclear material is an essential step in creating vaccines.

67.   He also repeated his call on North Korea to open a suspected nuclear materials site to U.S. inspectors and to end ballistic missile test launches.

68.   He says Russian crime bosses are doing a global business selling arms, including nuclear materials, to potential terrorists, incidentally paying off European officials along the way.

69.   He has cooperated with U.S. efforts to tighten controls on nuclear material at his former institute.

70.   He said the move made it harder for him to win approval for strategic-arms agreements and for American participation in projects to secure nuclear materials in Russia.