CHEM C3000 POTASSIUM IODIDE GENERATOR
A stroll through the backyard reveals what looks like a giant Van de Graaff generator with a pipe spiraling out of it, marked with CAUTION: RADIATION signs. But not every suburban household boasts its own particle accelerator. From the outside, company headquarters – at the end of a dirt road high in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque – looks like any other ranch house in New Mexico, with three dogs, a barbecue, and an SUV in the driveway. The target of this operation, which involved more than two dozen police officers and federal agents, was not an international terrorist ring but the couple’s home business, United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, a mail-order outfit that serves amateur scientists, students, teachers, and law enforcement professionals. Recalling that June morning in 2003, Lazar says, “If they were expecting to find Osama bin Laden, they brought along enough guys.” “Come out with your hands up immediately, Miss White!” one of them yelled through a megaphone, while another handcuffed the physicist in his underwear. Suddenly police officers and men in camouflage swarmed up the path, hoisting a battering ram.
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White’s husband, a physicist named Bob Lazar, was already outside, awakened by their barking dogs. The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16. Credit:Michael Lewis Joy White and Bob Lazar run United Nuclear from their home in New Mexico.