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Uranium for Free For the past 14 years, U.S. teams like the one in Chile have been engaged in a race against terrorists to gain control of the global supply of HEU - the compound from which a nuclear bomb can be most easily fabricated. President Barack Obama has said preventing...
All told, over several decades, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council distributed some 44,000 lbs. (20,000 kg) of HEU - enough for 800 nuclear weapons - to around 50 countries as diverse as Australia, Jamaica and Vietnam. Although that figure is a drop in the bucket compared...
It is Bieniawski's job to convince countries to give up their HEU and send it to either the U.S. or Russia. So far, the NNSA has removed a total of 5,935 lbs. (2,692 kg) of fissile material from 37 countries and has its sights on 4,190...
Bieniawski says his mission is to help overcome these obstacles by "schmoozing for my country," at which he is pretty good. (Once, he sweet-talked leaders from an African nation with HEU stocks by calling on their shared African heritage; although raised and educated in America, he was born to...
When the convoy carrying the HEU arrived at Valparaiso, two NNSA ships were anchored a short distance from the coast; the agency had decided to split up the material so that neither ship would carry enough HEU for an atom bomb. But as long as the HEU remained on land...