In article <9408221335.AA00765@snark.imsi.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com> wrote:
iqg1550 says:
Let's all rejoice at the birth of the latest member of The Horsemen of The Criminal Apocalypse -- The Nuclear Weapons Material Smuggler. I'm sure his four siblings will make plenty of room for their baby brother.
I will point out, of course, that anyone who can afford the tens of millions to hundreds of millions the smugglers are reportedly charging for critical masses worth of Plutonium and Uranium, odds are that they can afford to buy un-escrowed secure communications equipment...
Not to mention the fact that without tritium, the "trigger" for nuclear weapons (and extremely expensive and rare at $ 100m a gram) all you have is a radioactive paperweight.