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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 j...

Dozens of nuclear bombs and it was just sitting there in the ground, if anybody wanted to come collect that stuff. in 1991, they closed down that big nuclear testing facility. by 1995, the scientists who used to work there had started telling their scientist friends in the united states, um, we kind of maybe left a lot of plutonium sitting around out there. we're not sure what happened to it. but 1997, one of those american scientists, who had just retired as head of the lab at los alamos, decided he was going to go out to kazakhstan on his own to have a look to see what his russian friends we...