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Assault On Pelindaba

December 4, 2008 6:02 AM

Scott Pelley investigates the boldest assault ever on a facility containing weapons-grade uranium, a still-unsolved crime that could have had calamitous consequences.

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by exman3 November 25, 2008 10:08 PM EST
Somthing fishy here. You guys beat the bloggers on this one. Yes, the media can be honest and unbiased. Bring trust back to mainstream media!
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by shemuses November 25, 2008 4:02 AM EST
First of all, outsider141 has totally missed the point of the story...which happens with us nerdy types sometimes. We miss the forest for the illogical and ''unable to compute'' trees. The material is being stored by SA to keep their proverbial ''toe'' in the WMD game, whether or not it is actually used to create brachytherapy seeds. Secondly, AND MOST IMPORTANT TO ME, where can I get a full list of Scott Pelley''s stories w/producers credits?! This is - almost beyond Pulitzer- quality work. The current season represents truly exceptional journalism for Scott, his producers and 60 minutes. The Obama interview might have drawn your largest audience, but Pelley is the one bringing the goods! Incredibly important stories overlooked by the general media presented with cohesive journalistic integrity. During my year at Mizzou, studying such ethics was requisite at Walter Cronkite''s alma mater. Sadly, there is little evidence of that matriculation in other news sectors. Besides Amanpour and Cooper...I''m at a loss to name peers.

Melissa C.
Houston TX

P.S. Graham Messick should never again respond to creeps on the internet, myself excluded ;-)
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by shemuses November 25, 2008 3:57 AM EST
First of all, outsider141 has totally missed the point of the story...which happens with us nerdy types sometimes. We miss the forest for the illogical and ''unable to compute'' trees. The material is being stored by SA to keep their proverbial ''toe'' in the WMD game, whether or not it is actually used to create brachytherapy seeds. Secondly, AND MOST IMPORTANT TO ME, where can I get a full list of Scott Pelley''s stories w/producers credits?! This is - almost beyond Pulitzer- quality work. The current season represents truly exceptional journalism for Scott, his producers and 60 minutes. The Obama interview might have drawn your largest audience, but Pelley is the one bringing the goods! Incredibly important stories overlooked by the general media presented with cohesive journalistic integrity, A year at Mizzou, studying such ethics was requisite at Walter Cronkite''s alma mater. Sadly, there is little evidence of that matriculation in other news sectors. Besides Amanpour and Cooper...I''m at a loss to name peers.

Melissa C.
Houston TX

P.S. Graham Messick should never again respond to creeps on the internet, myself excluded ;-)
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by shemuses November 25, 2008 3:49 AM EST
First of all, outsider141 has totally missed the point of the story...which happens with us nerdy types sometimes. We miss the forest for the illogical and ''unable to compute'' trees. The material is being stored by SA to keep their proverbial ''toe'' in the WMD game, whether or not it is actually used to create brachytherapy seeds. Secondly, AND MOST IMPORTANT TO ME, where can I get a full list of Scott Pelly''s stories w/producer credits?! This is - almost beyond Pulitzer- quality work. The current season represents truly exceptional journalism for Scott, his producers and 60 minutes. The Obama interview might have drawn your largest audience, but Pelley is the one bringing the goods! Incredibly important stories overlooked by the general media presented with cohesive journalistic integrity, A year at Mizzou, studying such ethics was requisite at Walter Cronkite''s alma mater. Sadly, there is little evidence of that matriculation in other news sectors. Besides Amanpour and Cooper...I''m at a loss to name peers.

Melissa C.
Houston TX

P.S. Graham Messick should never again respond to creeps on the internet, myself excluded ;-)
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by outsider141 November 24, 2008 6:57 PM EST
Z13311, I think you are confusing different things because they are both slammed together in some way For a nuclear explosion you need several pounds of enriched uranium. In the LHC they accelerate single protons. Also, in a bomb the accelerator mechanism is usually a conventional explosion while the LHC uses magnetic pull on the charged particles.
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by z13311 November 24, 2008 5:20 PM EST
Since it only takes two pieces of HEU "slamming together at high speeds" to produce an atomic explosion and since small amounts are often used in medical products, perhaps only small amounts of medical HEU was stolen from Pelindaba, enough to cause the recent, hardly publicized, disaster at the Large Hadron Collider, where nuclear particles are going to be "slammed together at high speeds" to alledgedly re-produce the "Big Bang," that started creation? I predict there will be another raid on Pelindaba, as they plan to repair and use the collider in future experimental trials.
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by superfancy88 November 24, 2008 4:54 PM EST
Heckuva job, South Africa-ie!

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by karelkriel November 24, 2008 12:10 AM EST
As a former South African now living in the US, I would like to you that in South African usage "a couple of minutes" does not mean "exactly two minutes". It means "some minutes", which could be five or fifteen minutes or so.
When Mr Adam stated that it took a couple of minutes for security to arrive, he did not mean exactly two minutes as your interviewer understood.
It took me ten years in the US and many misunderstandings before I realized this difference in usage!
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by karelkriel November 24, 2008 12:04 AM EST
As a former South African now living in the US, I would like to you that in South African usage "a couple of minutes" does not mean "exactly two minutes". It means "some minutes", which could be five or fifteen minutes or so.
When Mr Adam stated that it took a couple of minutes for security to arrive, he did not mean exactly two minutes as your interviewer understood.
It took me ten years in the US and many misunderstandings before I realized this difference in usage!
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