Monday September 22 3:54 PM EDT Russia May Have 'Lost' Nuclear Bombs By Andrei Khalip MOSCOW (Reuter) - President Boris Yeltsin's former environmental safety adviser said in remarks published on Monday that some of Russia's portable nuclear bombs might indeed be missing, as asserted by another former Yeltsin aide. "The statement by Alexander Lebed concerning suitcases with nuclear bombs is definitely not groundless," academician Alexei Yablokov wrote in a letter to Novaya Gazeta weekly. ... He mentioned more than 100 suitcase-sized nuclear bombs, any one of which could kill up to 100,000 people. .... The United States said then it had detected a seismic event "with explosive characteristics" near the Novaya Zemlya test site, but Russian officials flatly denied any nuclear tests. They said Russia had voluntarily given up testing in 1992 and was sticking to this position. --end quote-- I was unable to attend the Demonstration at NZ, but I am now more willing to bid for the suitcases than before. They really pack a punch! I bid $800,000 for Suitcase Number 57. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."