1.   A parade of scientists and scholars told the panel that the risks of nuclear smuggling were real and rising.

2.   All sorts of scoundrels have tried nuclear smuggling in recent years.

3.   But Germany, the site of many reports of nuclear smuggling from the former Soviet Union, has no similar organization.

4.   Finance Minister Theo Waigel Thursday urged that the issue of nuclear smuggling be placed on the agenda at the next summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.

5.   He also urged more money to combat nuclear smuggling and to buy highly enriched uranium from Russia.

6.   If there is no cause for the hand-wringing that has emerged in connection with reported cases of nuclear smuggling in Europe, there are still many imponderables.

7.   In Bonn, German Finance Minister Theo Waigel told a German newspaper that future financial aid to Russia would be linked to cooperation in stopping nuclear smuggling.

8.   Kidman plays the government expert on nuclear smuggling, Clooney the dirty-tricks-if-necessary guy.

9.   Reports of nuclear smuggling appear to lend added weight to the idea that terrorists can build their own bombs.