Weapons-grade mystery: How did a gangster score plutonium in Myanmar's jungles?
by editors@theworld.org (Patrick Winn) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6VD3B)
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.