Remember those 33 lbs of Uranium that was seized? Turns out it was only several hundred grams

[Martin]

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[Jmmsbnd007]

Wow, it's going to get hot in here.

 

[Colt45]

I probably got 100g in my back yard :Q

j/k, but they do a lot of uranium mining north of here.

 

[Chadder007]

Don't bloody care how much it was....Uranium is Uranium. It can all be used for the same destructive purposed by that freak Saddam

 

[Kadarin]

Doesn't change anything. They were still trying to smuggle uranium...

 

[Zebo]

1Remember those 33 lbs of Uranium that was seized? Turns out it was only several hundred grams

Well now I feel safer

 

[BlueApple]

I wonder if The Onion will do a satire article on this related to the new move to legalize small amounts of marijuana.

 

[justint]

If that is indeed refined weapons grame uranium, several hundred grams is not an insignificant amount. I always thought the 33lbs number from initial reports was too high. 33lbs would be enough for even an unsophisticated nuclear program to make at least 1 if not two weapons depending on yield. Bug kudos to the Turkish on this one.

 

[brxndxn]

Who knows? That several hundred grams could have been the last bit needed to reach critical mass for a bomb...

 

[Mani]

Or worse yet, if that several hundred grams was part of a larger overall shipment, the rest of which was missed.

 

[HendrixFan]

Ive read that the uranium hasnt been refined at all, let alone weapons grade. I really wonder how so much misinformation was spread about this early on, do reporters just make stuff up to get a "scoop"?

 

[HappyPuppy]

A few hundred grams here, a few hundred grams there. The bastard has had years to bring in everything he needs a little bit at a time. It's time to take him out and make the Iraqi people our friends.

 

[JellyBaby]

Can anyone making noise about this story and Saddum's alleged nuclear program link me to where it's been proven Iraq was the end destination of this "hoard" of Periodic Table Element #92?

 

[Moonbeam]

Makes sense that it was a small amount since it might be a plant like the incubators.