U.S. Can’t Track Tons of Weapons-Grade Uranium, Plutonium -- Danger Room
President Obama has repeatedly said his top counter-terrorism goal is to prevent terrorists from acquiring the building blocks to make nuclear or “dirty” bombs. In April of 2009, Obama announced a new international effort to “secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” Since then, the Department of Energy has dispatched scientists around the globe to collect hundreds of pounds of the stuff.
But according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), issued late last Friday afternoon to little fanfare, thousands of pounds of highly-enriched uranium and separated plutonium remain. American officials may never get a chance to ensure its security.
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My Comment: Let us hope (and I know that hope is not a strategy or effective policy) .... that this is just a simple and (cough, cough) inconsequential internal inventory problem.
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