World was SOOO Close to a Nuke Disaster!!!

Those fears of Nukes falling in wrong hands and the terrorists at least getting hold of a “dirty bomb” are not without any credibility.

High Enriched Uranium can be carried by hand and doesnt set off metal detectors or bomb sniffer dogs!

Here is a story in New York Times which shows the world was just SO close to a Nuke disaster! A Russian guy was going to deliver 100 grams of refined Uranium supposedly to a Muslim man from a “serious organization”!

Here is what this such Highly Enriched Uranium can do:

With only 25kg of HEU, any halfway decent demolitions expert or DIYer with a basement and a welding torch can build a bomb that would kill thousands. A clever couple of grad students could lay waste to a city of millions (not by vaporising it, quite, but by blackening its centre with a radioactive hangover to last centuries). link

So, we can simply thank God that this Russian man walked into the Georgian authorities instead of a “Muslim” man!

Last January, a Russian man with sunken cheeks and a wispy mustache crossed into Georgia and traveled to Tbilisi by car along a high mountain road. In two plastic bags in his leather jacket, Georgian authorities say, he carried 100 grams of uranium so refined that it could help fuel an atom bomb.

The Russian, Oleg Khinsagov, had come to meet a buyer who he believed would pay him $1 million and deliver the material to a Muslim man from “a serious organization,” the authorities say.

The uranium was a sample, just under four ounces, and the deal a test: If all went smoothly, he boasted, he would sell a far larger cache stored in his apartment back in Vladikavkaz, two to three kilograms of the rare material, four and a half to six and a half pounds, which in expert hands is enough to make a small bomb.

The buyer, it turned out, was a Georgian agent. Alerted to Mr. Khinsagov’s ambitions by spies in South Ossetia, Georgian officials arrested him and confiscated his merchandise. After a secret trial, the smuggler was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

The case has alarmed officials because they had thought that new security precautions had tamped down the nuclear black market that developed in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed.

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