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Part of the reason co-evolution could work is that it puts China alongside the U.S. in thinking about these new rules. That won't be easy. The U.S. is used to telling the rest of the world what to do. It will require energetic diplomacy. Practically, one item on...
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...
After Lopez-Lizana reported that the uranium was accounted for, the NNSA team had to shift it through a crisis zone to a port on high alert for tsunamis. And their cargo was unstable. HEU must be stored and shipped in certain geometrical configurations - long, flat sheets, for instance - so...
The fact that one of the most dangerous materials known to man came to find itself in Chile is the result of one of the great gambits of the 20th century. In the mid-1950s, as the international community became seriously concerned about nuclear proliferation, states that had nuclear weapons...
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...