Why not do a repeat in Pakistan?
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WASHINGTON — The United States has helped Ukraine send two atomic bombs’ worth of weapons grade uranium to Russia during a secret operation over the holidays, the Obama administration confirmed Thursday on msnbc’s The Rachel Maddow Show.
The removal of more than 111 pounds of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to get rid of all of his country’s highly enriched uranium by April 2012.
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“The Ukraine, they recognize they’re part of the international community, they recognize how dangerous this material is,” Thomas D’Agistino, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, told Maddow.A request by BP to set an “unusually deep cement plug” on the Gulf oil well that subsequently exploded was approved by U.S. officials in just 90 minutes, report says.
The material will be blended down in Russia, rendering it useless for bomb making, the Associated Press said.
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