plutonium• But stocks of civilplutonium are flowing forth from reprocessingplants ordered during the 1970s.• There is the question: why was civil plutoniumexported, in the first place, under a defenceagreement?• Given the possession of plutonium, nuclear weapons are easy to make.• As little as 55 pounds of highly enricheduranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.• We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.• But the world has a surplus of plutonium, even without extrasupplies coming from disarmament.• It also has become clear that the two sides differ profoundly on what to do with separated plutonium.• We can understandplutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.