The Los Angeles Times reports that the United Nations nuclear watchdog is now painting a singularly bleak vision of a world ‘in disarray’, warning that the most imminent threat is not a new nation joining the nuclear club, but deadly material falling into the hands of extremists.The International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El Baradei warned of the danger of nuclear material falling into the hands of extremist groups, nurtured on ‘anger, humiliation and desperation’ in the Middle East or elsewhere.
He said the IAEA each year is handling 150 cases of illicit trafficking of nuclear material. Some material that is reported stolen is never recovered, he said, and conversely, “a lot of the material recovered has never been reported stolen.
Meanwhile, two employees of Pakistan's atomic energy agency have been abducted in the country's restive north-western region abutting the Afghan border, according to Pakistani police sources.
