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In Shanxi, the efforts of thousands of rescuers to save the remaining 26 miners have stalled because of extensive flooding, Xinhua reported. As their time underground approaches two weeks, the likelihood of their survival diminishes. For several dozen families, the miracle in Shanxi could still end up a disaster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and West Virginia: A Tale of Two Mine Disasters | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

For the following four days, Bieniawski and his team plus a U.S. shipping contractor met with Chilean officials to plan an escape route. The meetings had an odd quality - aftershocks twice spilled coffee from cups. The original plan was to ship the HEU to the U.S. from the Chilean port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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