Article: U.S. Takes Nuclear Fuel; Officials Feared Terrorism in Kazakhstan

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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