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
Sometimes when you play a yakuza game it’s like “man these plotlines are ridiculous”
maybe not so much
This is GTA levels of ridiculous characters.
Have you never played a Yakuza game? They blow GTA out of the water in terms of ridiculousness.
Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
The idea that there's an amount of heroin that can be used to purchase weapons grade nuclear materials concerns me even though I know it's just a high value illegal commodity.
Department Energie Atomic.
It's because people have been getting high on Power.
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.
Did he promise to build Libyan Nationalists a bomb and use it for his experiments instead?
That's heavy
And that was how Rick and Morty was born
“Quick arms deal, 20 minutes, in and out.”
Did they like... have him pose for a picture?
Least shocking thing I've ever heard, we've been scared of Russia loosey goosey rotting nuclear security forever.
Edit: estimated remaining 20,400 Yakuza members is more than I expected.
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He even looks like he's from the Yakuza series
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