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...NEST was formed in 1975 after an extortionist threatened to blow up Boston with a nuclear device unless he was paid $200,000. Since then, NEST has evaluated 110 threats, and mobilized itself to deal with about 30 of them; like the Boston incident, all have been hoaxes. Yet NEST is more than a high-tech SWAT team. At the remote Pajarito site in the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory complex in New Mexico, 17 scientists are using technology found on the shelves of Radio Shack and the type of nuclear fuel sold on the black market to construct homemade...
Over the past few months, TIME has been permitted to take an inside look at the operations of nest, which employs more than 1,000 men and women. Many are scientists who helped build America's nuclear arsenal. Others are volunteers from Energy Department offices around the country. All must be ready to spring into action at a moment's notice...
...focuses on responding to actual emergencies. Though the department has had its funding cut more than 9% over the past four years, it has almost doubled its budget for responding to nuclear emergencies, now at $70 million annually. The core of the effort is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team--NEST. These are the people America will call on if and when someone claims to have hidden an atom bomb in the Mall of America...
...first line of defense is made up of people like Lewis Newby, a former Navy pilot who heads a team of NEST scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Newby travels everywhere with a cellular phone and call-out roster for other team members; at home, a special beeper sits on his nightstand. When a nuclear threat is received, Newby and his colleagues must assess it. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, nest has a computer filled with thousands of pages of everything publicly written about making a nuclear weapon: newspaper clips, magazine articles, reports...
...would venture out to the local library where she could read the Wall Street Journal without paying for it. And on her little noticed journeys outside her apartment, she would also visit her stockbroker. When she died at age 101 last January, Scheiber had converted a $5,000 nest egg into a $22 million fortune. And in death she proved herself extravagantly generous. Last week it was announced that she had bequeathed most of her fortune to Yeshiva University, a New York City school she never attended and where no one ever knew...