WikiLeaks Cables: How US 'Second Line Of Defence' Tackles Nuclear Threat -- The Guardian
Diplomatic dispatches reveal world of smugglers, ex-military fixers and radioactive materials found in unlikely locations.
The leaked US cables reveal the constant, largely unseen, work by American diplomatic missions around the world to try to keep the atomic genie in its bottle and forestall the nightmare of a terrorist nuclear attack.
The leaked cables tell hair-raising tales of casks of uranium found in wicker baskets in Burundi, a retired Russian general offering to sell "uranium plates" in Portugal, and a radioactive Armenian car on the Georgian border.
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My Comment: This constant vigilance and battle to limit nuclear proliferation is vastly and consistently under-reported. Kudos to the men and women who take it upon themselves to make sure that the unthinkable does not happen one day.