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covers, like happens in some places here at home, even now. they were scavenging this site on an industrial scale, using excavators and bulldozers, doing everything they could to dismantle that place to find anything they could sell. they dug these long trenches with heavy machinery because those trenches contained copper cable for the phone lines between the testing sites and the control rooms and they wanted that copper cable. they dug around in those tunnels, they dug around in those bore holes filled with super pure plutonium. and who knows if they knew it was there. but imagine what it would mean for the world, for enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear weapons to have been openly for sale on the scrap markets of eastern kazakhstan. know anybody who might want to buy enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear weapons? so american scientists visiting that site in the late 1990s kind of freaked out. and they came back to washington to say, this has to be taken care of. one of th
dismantling that place to find anything they could sell. they dug these long trenches with heavy machinery because those trenches contained copper cable for the phone lines between the testing sites and the control rooms and they wanted that copper cable. they dug around in those tunnels, they dug around in those bore holes filled with super pure plutonium. and who knows if they knew it was there. but imagine what it would mean for the world, for enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear weapons to have been openly for sale on the scrap markets of eastern kazakhstan. know anybody who might want to buy enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear weapons? so american scientists visiting that site in the late 1990s kind of freaked out. and they came back to washington to say, this has to be taken care of. one of the people who helped them get approval in washington to take action about this was the guy with the amazing hair who just got confirmed to be our new energy secretary. he at the