![]() ![]() ![]() Seaborg wrote that two government investigators, sent to interview him on June 21, 1978, told him enriched uranium, identified as coming from one of NUMEC's suppliers, was found in Israel. One of the few government documents referencing enriched uranium from the United States found in Israel was a diary entry from Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel Prize winner and a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which controlled the use of atomic energy for commercial and military use in the 1960s. The Valley News-Dispatch (Tarentum, Pa.) reported J("Reports of missing uranium dogged NUMEC owner Zalman Shapiro for life"): Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg, the co-discoverer of plutonium and all transuranium elements through element 102 and a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, also firmly rejected the theory. ![]() He is not the only well-informed scientist who doubts that NUMEC's uranium was diverted to Israel. Johnson quotes Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists: "It is one of the most interesting and important Cold War mysteries out there." Fifty years after investigations began-they have involved, at various times, the AEC and its successors, Congress, the FBI, the CIA, and other government agencies-NUMEC remains one of the most confounding puzzles of the nuclear era. ![]()
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