A recent Harvard study documented the success of partnering on nuclear issues: The United States, Russia and Kazakhstan successfully locked down enough Soviet-era nuclear materials for dozens of bombs.
The Fourth, finished in 1984, is stuffed with enough material for a dozen pieces, including a quirky fugue, a gamboling fourth movement and a ghostly finale.
The mad, the melancholy, the murderous; brothers, one a Union sympathizer, the other hot for the Confederacy; barnstorming Shakespeareans with lives out of Shakespeare: the Booth family could provide material for a dozen fascinating dramas.
During a sabbatical year in Paris in 1937 38 to study painting at the Académie Julian, she produced landscapes and figure studies that she would use as source material for a dozen years.
Enough fissile material for a dozen or more nuclear weapons was left behind in mountain tunnels and bore holes, virtually unguarded and vulnerable to scavengers, rogue states or potential terrorists.
Procurement is underway of 500,000 purification tablets; 8 motor pumps; 50,000 reagent packets for field water testing; materials for building dozens of permanent latrines and washstands; toilet paper; 120,000 garbage bags; garbage cans and soap.
Other reports suggest the country has enough fissile material for about a dozen plutonium warheads.
In Bolivia, the second-largest grower of the raw material for cocaine, several dozen American agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency, Border Patrol and State Department are advising on anti-drug procedures, and about a dozen Special soldiers are training Bolivian forces.
Had the North Korean launching succeeded, had the North demonstrated that it now has a delivery vehicle that could ultimately carry a warhead, the clock might have ticked forward, especially because the regime is believed to have enough material for a half-dozen nuclear weapons.
