• solrize@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    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?

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      5 hours ago

      The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.

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        5 hours ago

        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.

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      15 hours ago

      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.

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      15 hours ago

      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.