U.S. unease about nuclear-weapons fuel takes aim at a South African vault

South Africa stores nearly a quarter-ton of uranium that could be readily fashioned into an atomic bomb at the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center. (Douglas Birch/Center for Public Integrity)

By Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith | Center for Public Integrity-March 14 at 11:53 AM

PELINDABA, South Africa — Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half a dozen bombs, each powerful enough to obliterate central Washington or most of Lower Manhattan, is locked in a former silver vault at a nuclear research center near the South African capital.
U.S. unease about nuclear-weapons fuel takes aim at a South African vault.odt by Thavam Ratna