Japanese Yakuza mob boss Takeshi Ebisawa pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran among other charges.
According to court documents, a nuclear forensic laboratory confirmed Ebisawa’s plutonium was weapons-grade material “suitable for use in a nuclear weapon.” Breakthroughs, discoveries ...
According to the British newspaper The Times, a memo has already been drafted at the Ministry of Defense suggesting that Ukraine could quickly embark on a project to build a plutonium-based bomb ...
and that the "the isotope composition of the plutonium" was weapons-grade, meaning enough of it would be suitable for use in a nuclear weapon. Last year, prosecutors posted photos of the purported ...
The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...