But the evacuation of Kahuta is not necessarily evidence of war," he said, because "Pakistan has always been afraid" of a preëmptive Indian raid on the nuclear-weapons center.
His research got under way in 1958, sponsored by the Air Force special weapons center in Albuquerque, and involved up to 10 people on his staff, including Carl Sagan, then a young astronomer and later a famous popularizer of science.
The Energy Department's Nuclear Cities Initiative has targeted Sarov and nine other weapons centers for programs to retrain their employees for commercial work, primarily to prevent rogue states from buying Russian nuclear expertise.
The labs range from sprawling nuclear weapons centers to specialized research accelerators.
The case prompted the Department of Energy last year to begin tightening restrictions on the hundreds of foreign-born scientists working at its three nuclear weapons centers: Los Alamos, the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
If Chagnon made this stuff up—about elaborate Yanomamö duels with lethal weapons centered around sex Davi Kopenawa must be guilty of plagiarizing Chagnon.
The Devils added a major weapon when center Adam Henrique joined the lineup for the first time this season.
On Thursday, the weapon took center stage in this courtroom, as a federal firearms expert testified about tests that he said proved that the Bushmaster was used to shoot 13 people, 10 fatally.
It had an annular wing around the midsection of its body, mounted near the weapon's center of gravity.
Israel has just bombed a Syrian convoy of antiaircraft weapons in a sortie that also hit a weapons research center — with no response from Assad beyond a belated grumble that this was "destabilizing" (that process seems advanced already).
