0 disastrous throughout the whole soviet union, including in kazakhstan. the official post-soviet line was, don t worry, all these nuclear sites are taken care of, they re all under guard. we don t need any help. we ve taken care of all of that stuff. so dr. siegfried hecker with, this guy from los alamos you see on the right there, he goes out to kazakhstan alone and he goes to that test site. and when he s there, he sends back to his friends in the united states this picture. this is how that site with all the plutonium laying around was being guarded. see the traffic barriers there that are just left up, all the more convenient to drive up and down that road. the little house there covered in graffiti, it is supposed to be a guard post, but it is abandoned. nobody is working there. that s how well-guarded that site was. what was happening on that site, amid total economic collapse in the region, was that people had started raiding that nuclear test site for scrap metal. and it wasn