A Secret Race for Abandoned Nuclear Material - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/world/asia/a-secret-race-for-abandoned-nuclear-material.html
Working in top secret over a period of 17 years, Russian and American scientists collaborated to remove hundreds of pounds of plutonium and highly enriched uranium — enough to construct at least a dozen nuclear weapons — from a remote Soviet-era nuclear test site in Kazakhstan [semipalatinsk] that had been overrun by impoverished metal scavengers
(fascinant reste de #guerre_froide #armement #nucléaire #ссср avec des #drones aussi ; les métaux contaminés volés sur le site étaient donc revendus en #Chine…)
