Article 6VD3B Weapons-grade mystery: How did a gangster score plutonium in Myanmar's jungles?

Weapons-grade mystery: How did a gangster score plutonium in Myanmar's jungles?

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A middle-aged Japanese recently pleaded guilty to a strange crime: attempting to sell weapons-grade plutonium" acquired in Myanmar to an Iranian general. Unfortunately, for the gangster, the Iranian" was a fictitious character invented by DEA agents. The guy will likely disappear into the American prison system for life - but a huge mystery still surrounds his case: how did he cop weapons-grade" plutonium in Myanmar, a poor country with no known enrichment facilities? The World's Patrick Winn reports.

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