What went wrong with US plutonium disposition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

What went wrong with US plutonium disposition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union manufactured enormous quantities of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. When that era ended, the United States and the newly formed Russian Federation began to reduce their nuclear arsenals. Both nations possessed large stockpiles of plutonium—a problem that posed both a sustained threat to the environment and a