I'm amazed that no one in this thread has mentioned Project Sapphire yet. It's my favorite bit of 90's spycraft. Project Sapphire Wikipedia Entry: Project Sap

I'm amazed that no one in this thread has mentioned Project Sapphire yet. It's my favorite bit of 90's spycraft. Project Sapphire Wikipedia Entry: Project Sapphire was a successful 1994 covert operation of the United States government in cooperation with the Kazakhstan government to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. A warehouse at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant outside Ust-Kamenogorsk housed 1,322 pounds (600 kg) of weapons grade enriched uranium to fuel Alfa class submarines (90% U-235). Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fuel was poorly documented and secured, and in danger of being sold for use in the construction of nuclear weapons. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002881.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09... http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/report/project-sapphire-today http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/report/project-sapphire-today