How Nuclear Material Moves #
March 24th, 2008 | In Worth Reading
Lawrence Sheets has an interesting story in this month’s Atlantic about how highly enriched uranium (that’s the bomb kind) moves in the former Soviet Union.
The [Russian] FSB later sent their Georgian counterparts a brief report on the results. On page five of the letter, which I ultimately obtained from other sources in the Georgian government, the Russians confirmed that Khintsagov’s cache was indeed HEU. The FSB put the level of enrichment at 89.38 percent, just below the initial American assessment. Yet the letter went on to [make the erroneous claim] that because the material had been produced more than 10 years ago, its origins were impossible to determine.