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DESCRIPTION:Last Chance to Sign Up - Join Us at Panino's For Free Dinner\n\
 nProject Sapphire - The Untold Store\n\nPreventing Brain Drain & Securing 
 Nuclear Materials\n\nDavid Bondurant\, Life Senior Member\n\n60 Minutes Re
 cently Told the story of Project Sapphire\, a covert mission in 1994 to tr
 ansport 600 Kg of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) from Kazakhstan to prevent
  nuclear proliferation to countries such as Iran and North Korea following
  the end of the Soviet Union. This effort was part an even bigger effort t
 o prevent brain drain of key scientists and secure nuclear materials in th
 e newly independent states from terrorism. I will describe a visit to Russ
 ia in 1990 which led to the Global Initiative for Proliferation Protection
  (GIPP) and a program called the US Industry Coalition (USIC) which put we
 apons scientists in Russia and the Newly Independent States of the Soviet 
 Union to work on peaceful programs and secured nuclear materials. This on-
 going effort by the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) to secure HEU 
 continues today at the center of the current Middle East conflict.\n\nSpea
 ker(s): \, David Bondurant\n\nBldg: Downtown Panino's\, 604 North Tejon St
 reet\, Colorado Springs\, Colorado\, United States\, 80906\, Virtual: http
 s://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562127
LOCATION:Bldg: Downtown Panino's\, 604 North Tejon Street\, Colorado Spring
 s\, Colorado\, United States\, 80906\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee
 .org/m/562127
ORGANIZER:dbondurant@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:9
SUMMARY:Project Sapphire - The Untold Store
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 <strong>Last Chance to Sign Up - Join Us at Panino's For Free Dinner</stro
 ng></span></p>\n<p><strong>Project Sapphire - The Untold Store</strong></p
 >\n<p><strong>Preventing Brain Drain &amp\; Securing Nuclear Materials</st
 rong></p>\n<p>David Bondurant\, Life Senior Member</p>\n<p><strong>60 Minu
 tes</strong> Recently Told the story of Project Sapphire\, a covert missio
 n in 1994 to transport 600 Kg of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) from Kazakh
 stan to prevent nuclear proliferation to countries such as Iran and North 
 Korea following the end of the Soviet Union.<span class="Apple-converted-s
 pace">&nbsp\; </span>This effort was part an even bigger effort to prevent
  brain drain of key scientists and secure nuclear materials in the newly i
 ndependent states from terrorism.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp
 \; </span>I will describe a visit to Russia in 1990 which led to the Globa
 l Initiative for Proliferation Protection (GIPP) and a program called the 
 US Industry Coalition (USIC) which put weapons scientists in Russia and th
 e Newly Independent States of the Soviet Union to work on peaceful program
 s and secured nuclear materials.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp\
 ; </span>This on-going effort by the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNS
 A) to secure HEU continues today at the center of the current Middle East 
 conflict.</p>\n<p><img src="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/media
 /display/66eb5184-98c3-4f9a-91a7-b9fb00fb14b6"></p>
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