60 Minutes [2]' Scott Pelley interviews Ploughshares Fund grantee Matthew Bunn [3]of Harvard University's Managing the Atom [4]project about a terrifying and mysterious attack a year ago on the Pelindaba nuclear facility in South Africa. Two teams of gunmen gained access to the plant, which houses enough highly-enriched uranium to fuel a dozen nuclear bombs, but were repelled by t wo alert guards who fought them off. The attackers got away. A random burlary attempt? Bunn doesn't think so. "These people knew what kind of site they were in and knew what they were doing." Watch the video here [5].
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/347
[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
[3] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert.php?id=134
[4] http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/3/managing_the_atom.html
[5] http://ploughshares.org/news-analysis/publications/matthew-bunn-60-minutes-discuss-raid-south-african-nuclear-facility
[6] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/20/60minutes/main4621623.shtml