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   From: chasseur@zid.com   
      
   Le 2025-01-09 à 03:18, 186282@ud0s4.net a écrit :   
   > https://japantoday.com/category/crime/japanese-crime-leader-pleads-   
   > guilty-in-us-to-trafficking-nuclear-materials-from-myanmar   
   >   
   > The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged   
   > by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials   
   > from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice   
   > Department said in a statement.   
   >   
   > Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, pleaded guilty in Manhattan,   
   > New York, to conspiring with a network of associates to   
   > traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-   
   > grade plutonium, from Myanmar to other countries, the   
   > Justice Department said.   
   >   
   > . . .   
   >   
   >    Ummmmmmm ... you can't traffic weapons-grade fissionables   
   >    FROM Myanmar, esp plutonium, unless they're being MADE   
   >    in Myanmar.   
   >   
   >    Myanmar gives the outward appearance of being a sort   
   >    of 3.5th-world nation - little in the way of high tech.   
   >    Plutonium generally requires a dedicated breeder reactor   
   >    for efficient manufacture.   
   >   
   >    Ok, MIGHT, maybe, be some secret uses of perhaps   
   >    Indian or Pakistani facilities and Myanmar is just   
   >    the middleman. Iran can surely make weapons grade   
   >    uranium now too - also likely has some nukes but   
   >    just doesn't brag about it.   
   >   
   >    So - who/what is producing weapons-grade plutonium ???   
   >   
   >    Also ... who has been BUYING this stuff ??? Pu bombs   
   >    are a bit difficult, but uranium 'always works'. This   
   >    means quite a number of countries, or gangs, might   
   >    have Hiroshima-grade nukes the general public never   
   >    hears about. 15kt is a BIG Badda Boom.   
   >   
      
   Interesting times ahead it seems....   
   Let's hope they do not become really interesting...   
      
   Chasseur   
      
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