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Nov. 27, 1993: Three naval officers steal 4.5 kilos of HEU from submarine reactor assemblies in Murmansk. The culprits and fuel are found six months later.
May 10, 1994: Police in Bavaria find 5.6 grams of superpure plutonium-239 in the garage of a money counterfeiter with suspected links to a KGB/Bulgarian smuggling ring.
June 1994: Police find 3.05 kilos of HEU in a St. Petersburg icebox.
June 13, 1994: Police in Bavaria seize 800 milligrams of HEU smuggled through Prague.
Aug. 10, 1994: A suitcase at Munich airport contains lithium-6 and nuclear fuel. It was shipped from Moscow by a Colombian and two Spaniards with contacts in Russia's nuclear industry.
Dec. 14, 1994: Police in Prague find 2.72 kilos of HEU on the back seat of a parked car. A month later, they find one kilo more from the same shipment.
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