Safeguarding Others' Nuclear Fuel  December 27, 1994  Even after
Germany stopped several cases of nuclear smuggling from the
former Soviet Union last summer, some doubted the true extent of
the proliferation danger from that source.  Not the Clinton
administration. It has followed a strong non-proliferation
policy, letting it be known early on that it would buy nuclear
material from other countries in order to convert it to peaceful
use.  But it only recently revealed that it had taken
extraordinary and unprecedented steps to secretly buy enriched
uranium from Kazakhstan, ship it to the United States and secure
it at a government facility.  The administration trumpeted the
mission as an historic example of the way nations can work
together in the post-Cold War era to reduce the lingering
nuclear threat. And, indeed, if the material was as dangerous as
the White House maintained, it was prudent and in the nation's
best interest to remove this potential source of nuclear
terrorism.  But the unique deal with the