Jim Moore’s blog: Innovation, Strategy, Public Policy

Here are several links to the story of the 342 tons of stolen high explosives.

The explosives are of the type used to make nuclear triggers as well as conventional weapons.

Here is an overview story on the stolen explosives, from Reuters.

Here is the story from the UN, who was first told of the stolen explosives and, after verifying the story, told the US-led Multination Force.

Here is a helpful timeline, just published in the Boston Globe,
that tells the sorry story.  The bottom-line: when the US invaded
Iraq, they did not secure these explosives even though they searched
the area and declared it secure.

Extra credit question: The explosives are reported as stolen through
“theft and looting.”  How many pickup trucks does it take to carry
342 tons of explosives?