Americans Watch Over Former Soviet Nuclear Sites

A classified project seeks to keep terrorists away from what the Soviets left behind in testing near Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. James Hill for The New York Times

Old Soviet Nuclear Site In Asia Has Unlikely Sentinel: The U.S. -- New York Times

KURCHATOV, Kazakhstan — Twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed and tens of thousands of soldiers abandoned their posts at this remote site in northeastern Kazakhstan, the footprints of another great power — the United States — are increasingly visible.

The United States Defense Department has paid for aerial drones to spot intruders, and for motion detectors that signal when a person, or a horse or a car, crosses into restricted territory. The classified project aims to keep terrorists away from what the Soviets left behind in patches of earth and a warren of tunnels that they used for atomic testing: among other things, plutonium and highly enriched uranium that Western scientists fear could be used to build an improvised nuclear device.

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My Comment: I guess if the U.S. was not watching over these sites .... no one else would.