Baker Focuses On Atomic Waste In Visit to Urals
Tomorrow, Secretary of State James Baker III will be the first senior United States official to visit the secret cities of this once "closed" region. He is scheduled to visit Chelyabinsk-70, a smaller city founded in 1955 as the second major Soviet major facility for designing nuclear weapons.
Mr. Baker is here to dramatize the concern in the US over the fate of the thousands of nuclear scientists who Western governments fear could sell their skills to would-be nuclear powers in Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere. (Keeping Soviet science productive, Page 7.) He is also expected to examine the problem of reprocessing the nuclear material of the tens of thousands of warheads atop Soviet tactical and strategic weapons.
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