Nuclear Weapons Material

[Mark Terka]

In article <9408221335.AA00765 at snark.imsi.com>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at 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.