Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
Mafia leader caught in sting operation trying to sell weapons-grade nuclear material to man he believed was Iranian general
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Wait, what? Article says the guy had real plutonium. That is scary. Quantity is not specified though. Also doesn't say where the plutonium came from. He also had a bunch of what sounds like non-fissionable uranium and thorium. They hype that up some, but it is less of a threat.
Why is this on /nottheonion?
There's only a few places in the world you can get plutonium, none of them easy to access or extract.
There's gotta be more to this story that's probably super classified.
Why is this on /nottheonion?
Because the title made me think of The Onion.
Replying from my LW alt as there is still some federation lag between LW and the instance I posted from.
The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.
I want to know how they got the nuke stuff in the first place. That's potentially much more disruptive than any number of drug deals.
How's Russian border security?
TBH I disagree, I think the Heroine and Meth are worse. I could elaborate but I feel like it would take a while.
