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...says stopped years before.) But while asserting that Iran may no longer have a weapons program, the new report also stresses that Iran is continuing to try to develop the technique to enrich uranium on a massive scale and that it could, theoretically, manufacture enough highly enriched uranium, or HEU, to build a bomb "during the 2010-15 time frame." (Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes to use in energy production and does not intend to make any HEU; the NIE says it cannot assess Iran's ultimate intentions...
...report's author, Matthew G. Bunn, the Kennedy School's assistant director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, said surplus stores of plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) have posing an increased threat to U.S. security. Both plutonium and HEU can be used to make nuclear bombs...
According to a Boston Globe article published Saturday, Russia is believed to have a stockpile of 160 tons of plutonium and more than 1,000 tons of HEU located in 40 sites...
Bunn said Russia's depressed economy, combined with theft and corruption, results in serious risks that plutonium or HEU could fall into "the wrong hands...
Bunn also recommends the HEU be mixed with low-grade uranium which, while making the uranium unusable in bombs, would still be useful as power-reactor fuel...