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Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-Year Mission to Secure a Legacy of Soviet Nuclear Testing
The Belfer Centerβs Eben Harrell and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman for the first time report the details of one of the largest nuclear security operations of the post-Cold War years β a secret 17-year, $150 million operation to secure plutonium in the tunnels of Degelen Mountain.