6mo ago

Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

6mo ago

Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

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Sometimes when you play a yakuza game it’s like “man these plotlines are ridiculous”
maybe not so much
- This is GTA levels of ridiculous characters.
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?
- The nuclear materials make the headline, but the real story is that they were trading it for meth and heroine.
  
  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.
- 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.
Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
- No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
  
  Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
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.

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