• BurgerBaron@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • quixotic120@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Sometimes when you play a yakuza game it’s like “man these plotlines are ridiculous”

    maybe not so much

  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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?

    • Gork@lemm.ee
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      2 years 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.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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      2 years 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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        2 years 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.