As the Uranium One scandal unfolds and North Korea nukes up, Americans rightly worry about the integrity of our regulatory and approval mechanisms related to fissionable material.  It appears that members of the Obama Administration may have used the extensive regulation and secrecy integral to US uranium operations to bankrupt a $3 billion private firm, and civil litigation, with very different and often more permissive rules of discovery and deposition, may be feasible as a mechanism of getting at the rot. Some questionable federal government actions reported here in American Thinker in 2009 could be the basis for a civil suit against former Obama Administration officials. A good thing happened at the close of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union back in 1991.  The Soviets had tons of highly enriched uranium (90%+ U-235) that the Russians had little use for with the end of Cold War.  Some of it was in the form of nuclear warheads and bombs.  The...(Read Full Article)