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It's kind of odd that uranium smugglers write each other sales reciepts and label the samples. It seems like something you'd want to downplay in your paperwork.
by elipsey 11y ago
It's kind of odd that uranium smugglers write each other sales reciepts and label the samples. It seems like something you'd want to downplay in your paperwork...
"The guard found a receipt, written in Cyrillic, for the purchase of “uranium 235,” and then, after pulling apart an air compressor in the trunk, found a lead container inside with that label on it."
Everything about this whole thing seems kind of implausible, and poorly substantiated by anonymous "intelligence sources." Kind of reminds me the Valorie Plame incident.
Ahem.. I mean, we should all be very afriad, and obey the nearest authority figure!
- terminado 11y agotrying to find a buyer for 39 kilograms of highly-enriched uranium one kilogram of highly-enriched uranium for roughly $36 million $330,000 as an initial payment a small glass ampoule ... containing a blackish powder using genuine samples weighing a total of 5 grams as a lure dozens of such samples on its shelves meant to be the first of several shipments of highly-enriched uranium totaling 10 kilograms Doesn't sound like these are simple transactions. It's probably a bit of a horse trade to pawn off million dollar packages to people interested in murdering entire cities with nuclear fire. Also, I'd imagine a "receipt" in this case is not merely a set of carbon slips in salmon, canary and goldenrod. There are probably code words, used to mask meaning and ensure authenticity. But hey, you never know. Maybe it was just a coffee stained napkin with the following written on it in ballpoint pen: Dear Sergei, I.O.U. $360M - re: 10kg U235 4 bomb