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Weapons-Grade Uranium Flown Out of Germany

DEC 19, 2006
Physics Today
NPR : A Russian cargo plane took off from Germany this morning with a very unusual load: almost 600 pounds of highly enriched uranium. It was the biggest shipment ever in a joint U.S.-Russian program to keep nuclear material off the black market -- and out of the hands of terrorists.
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