Nine tons will be gone by 2012 At the GNEP meeting taking place in Vienna, Austria, this week the U.S. pledged to remove nine metric tons of plutonium, enough to make over 1,000 weapons, from its weapons stockpile. U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman made the pledge on Monday. That's 18,941 pounds or about 20 pounds of plutonium per bomb. It sure doesn't take much to wipe out civilization. Anyway,
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