Turkish Police Seize Weapons-Grade Uranium

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Actually, it was the Saudis who begged us not to.

Ungrateful bastards. You're country would of been after Kuwait if it wasn't for the U.S.

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Ug. This is the third time I've tried to post this, so wish me luck. If you're seeing this, thanks.

 

Anyway, in case you haven't heard, there was a slight miscalculation of the amount of weapons grade uranium. They said, what, 33 pounds? Well, it's a little less than that: about 4 ounces. Heard it on the radio, so I hope I was listening to something real. But, even if it is real, I think it's ok. I mean, it's probably that whole metric to standard conversion thingy. Who can blame them for being a bit off?

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Ok, ok, I was wrong, 5 ounces, but it's the thought that counts.

[Guest EricMM]

And people wanted weapons grade uranium why? To make into a scuplture of some sort?

 

please.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That U-235 is worth a pretty amazing amount of money. Of the three bombs we used in WWII (one test, 2 in combat), only 2 of them were Uranium bombs, IIRC. The other was Plutonium. We didn't even have enough U-235 for another bomb. It took a small city an astronomical amount of money and man-hours to refine what little was used. Of course, methods are much more efficient now.