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Andrew Bieniawski was in bed when the earthquake struck. On Feb. 26, Bieniawski, the assistant deputy administrator for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), had arrived in Santiago, Chile, to join a group of scientists and nuclear engineers on a top-secret mission to remove a potential nuclear bomb from the country. Around 40 lb. (18 kg) of highly enriched uranium (HEU) - with enough latent energy to destroy a portion of a city - had already been inventoried, secured and made ready for transport to a highly secure facility in the U.S. Running ahead of schedule, Bieniawski had taken...
...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 white parents in South Africa.) When he is unable to convince or pay countries to give up their HEU, Bieniawski offers to upgrade security around their material. That mission gained urgency in November 2007, when two teams of armed attackers stormed Pelindaba, a supposedly secure facility that houses hundreds...
...There's still a deterrent against nuclear terrorism The NPR keeps in place an ambiguous declaration from the Bush years that the U.S. "will hold fully accountable" any state that "supports or enables" terrorists in their mission to use weapons of mass destruction. That implies that the U.S. would use nuclear weapons against any state that gave a nuclear weapon or weapons-grade material to terrorists. Some nuclear terrorism experts - most noticeably Graham Allison of Harvard University - had hoped the U.S. would go further and threaten nuclear war against any nation from which terrorists had obtained nuclear material - even...
Over the course of her career, Wilson has been in space for over 28 days, according to the NASA Web site. Her last mission took place...
...government on their side. The Ekjut Trial in India has expanded to five other districts in the two states; according to the NGO, 20,000 village women are meeting every month. Now the team is looking to collaborate with the Indian government's five-year-old National Rural Health Mission to take advantage of its female Accredited Social Health Activists, or ASHAs. These frontline workers, trained in neonatal care, have already been stationed throughout rural India. Incorporating them as facilitators into the Ekjut Trial, says the Institute, would give them a more focused role in village communities. UNICEF...