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Article: U.S. Takes Nuclear Fuel; Officials Feared Terrorism in Kazakhstan
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- The Washington Post
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- November 23, 1994
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In a secret operation meant to thwart potential nuclear
terrorism in the former Soviet Union, the United States last month
dispatched a team of nuclear engineers and military personnel to
Kazakhstan to take from a poorly guarded warehouse enough highly
enriched uranium to manufacture 25 nuclear weapons, U.S. officials
disclosed yesterday.
The operation, conducted under the codename Project Sapphire
with the knowledge and approval of the Kazakhstan government, marks
the first occasion in which Washington has collected fissile
materials from the territory of a former Soviet republic and brought
them to the United States to be rendered unusable in nuclear
weaponry.
To do so, the ...
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