The Corner  The one and only.  Not Good   Voice of America
reports:  The day that Russia’s government decided last week to
end its participation in the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat
Reduction program, a huge, mushroom-shaped cloud rose high in
the air over Orenburg. In this case, the dust was kicked up by
massive, accidental blasts of conventional weapons, largely
stores of Soviet-era artillery shells.  To avoid the real thing,
a nuclear explosion, American taxpayers have paid $7 billion
over the last 20 years to cut the threat of loose nukes
scattered around the former Soviet Union. The program did things
as simple as build secure fences around warehouses that held
nuclear materials, and as complicated as evacuating all nuclear
weapons from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The thinking was
that, given the lax safety measures of the Soviet Union, and the
“anything goes” capitalism that followed the Soviet collapse,
Russia and other successor states needed help fast. But 20 years
later, Russia’s government fin