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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material

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Subject: Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
From: [email protected] (Mike Duvos)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 07:40:30 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Paul J. Ste. Marie" at Aug 25, 94 09:58:08 am
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> Actually, to pick a nit, the first a-bomb exploded (Alamogordo) was a
> plutonium device.  The U235 design was dropped on Hiroshima untested.

The media was making a big deal last night about the seizure of 
twenty pounds of U-238.  This, of course, is the non-radioactive
isotope of uranium in which trade is relatively unrestricted.  It does
make excellent shell casings and has a few other mundane industrial 
uses.

I wonder why the issue of bomb parts is now being given such a
huge push in the press?

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