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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
[email protected] (Mark Terka) writes:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > iqg1550 says:
> > > Let's all rejoice at the birth of the latest member of The Horsemen of
> > > The Criminal Apocalypse -- The Nuclear Weapons Material Smuggler.
> > > I'm sure his four siblings will make plenty of room for their baby
> > > brother.
> > I will point out, of course, that anyone who can afford the tens of
> > millions to hundreds of millions the smugglers are reportedly charging
> > for critical masses worth of Plutonium and Uranium, odds are that they
> > can afford to buy un-escrowed secure communications equipment...
> Not to mention the fact that without tritium, the "trigger" for nuclear
> weapons (and extremely expensive and rare at $ 100m a gram) all you have
> is a radioactive paperweight.
excuse me? a perfectly serviceable nuclear weapon can be made from
plutonium or sufficiently enriched uranium.
josh