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 t
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, 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. there is nobody 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 t just individual guys breaking i
millennium park and police there say they are tightening up security even more activity working with local ap federal law enforcement partners as well as homeland security. the police say they have a large patrol presence and the los angeles police department are on the lookout for any threat that might be in the city and new york city senator kristin gillibrant looking at concrete planters, to have local traffic barriers, like planters, designed to protect pedestrians and cyclists and this would be 50 million over the next decadement already at the site