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An Unknown Black Marketeer from Russia May Have The Fuel for a Nuclear Bomb

Post author:africsis
Post published:16 November 2015
Post category:Nuclear Security

The sample of highly-enriched uranium, of a type that could be used in a nuclear bomb, arrived here on a rainy summer day four years ago, in a blue shopping bag carried by a former policeman.

Tags: fissile, nuclear material, Russia, security

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