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Georgia’s location between the heroin-producing countries of Central Asia and the heroin-consuming countries of Europe has made it a prime smuggling route for heroin traffickers. In 2002, narcotic smuggling in Georgia was a $1 billion per year industry; and in 2006, Georgian authorities recorded their first seizure of methamphetamines. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, nuclear smugglers targeted unsecured nuclear waste sites in Georgia at least once, stealing cesium 137 (an ingredient used to make radiological, or dirty, bombs from a military base. According to the Georgian Ministry of Environmental Protection, law enforcement halted four attempts to smuggle highly enriched uranium through the country between 2003 and 2005.
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