不受监管控制的辐射源,竟然成为二十世纪九十年代国际社会所面临的一个较大问题——核和其它放射性物质的非法贩卖——的重要部分。就其本身而言,贩卖不是新现象。但全球对原子“黑市”的关注却明显增加,这可能是由1994年欧洲发生的几起广为人知的涉及武器可用材料的事件引起的。自前苏联解体以来,非法贩卖事件的数量大幅度增加,问题的范围已经超出欧洲和核不 Uncontrolled sources of radiation turned out to be an important part of the larger problem facing the international community in the 1990s - the illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive material. For its part, trafficking is not a new phenomenon. However, there has been a marked increase in global attention to atomic “black market”, possibly caused by several well-known events involving the availability of weapons in Europe in 1994. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the number of illicit trafficking has risen sharply, and the scope of the problem has exceeded that of Europe and the United States