When first proposed, the plan was as controversial as it was visionary. In 1991. as the cold war ended, Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar persuaded Congress to enhance America's own safety by helping to secure the vast archipelago of nuclear, chemical and biological dumps dotted across Russia and the former Soviet Union. Three years ago, the Bush administration persuaded its G8 partners (the other G7 rich nations, plus Russia) to take up the cause: between them they pledged $20 billion over ten years to secure Russia's remaining "loose nukes" and the rest. But as another G8 summit looms next month, at Gleneagles in Scotland, Messrs Nunn and Lugar would probably give the sum-miteers barely a passing grade.
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