The big question on the table in Moscow this week was not Chechnya or even the sale of nuclear equipment to Iran.

If you intend to export certain types of sensitive nuclear equipment, some of these may appear on what is called the 'trigger list'.

And the agency said it could not verify that Iraq had not hidden away banned nuclear equipment or materials.

Most of Iraq's nuclear equipment has already been destroyed.

To get everyone away from the MicroMagnetics presentation, they cut off power to the laboratory where nuclear equipment is operating.

A Russian military ship, carrying what might have been nuclear equipment, had simply vanished on its way to Cuba.

The nuclear equipment found by weapons inspectors in Iraq was meant for enriching uranium.

Adding to the suspicions, one of the seals that inspectors had placed on nuclear equipment in the reprocessing plant was discovered to have been broken.

In fact, the Soviets appear to have cut off the supply of new nuclear equipment.

One particular category of controlled goods which requires an export licence is nuclear equipment, material and technology.