US Can’t Account for Nuclear Material It Has Exported

President Obama has repeatedly said his top counterterrorism goal is to prevent terrorists from acquiring the building blocks to make nuclear or “dirty” bombs. He has pledged to “secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” But there are thousands of pounds of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium that the US has shipped overseas and cannot fully account for.

Read the whole story from Noah Shachtman at Wired’s Danger Room.

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curmudgeonvt

And when the proverbial "mushroom cloud" rises from an American city, the USG will, as they did after 9/11, NOT look in the mirror for the reasons. Forget the political reasons of those who might perpetrate this deed, the actions and policies of the USG for years has ultimately been leading to a moment such as this. Why those who considered as good policy spreading this material across the globe never considered that it MIGHT NOT BE SECURE and could one day come back to haunt us highlights the short-sighted ignorance of our "leaders" that has recently become more obvious. To think that "our friends" (that we bought) would always be "our friends" (stay bought)…

The USG should have been protecting that stuff the same way they protect the "donations" from their special interest friends.
John_Muhammad

Of course we know where all of it went- it went straight into the hands of Al-Qaeda ™, who are so nefarious they've penetrated our nuclear materials program and were working for years to sidetrack shipments all over the world. Of it's The Terrorists ™- who else would have the technical and operational knowledge to put those materials to use for making nuclear weapons in a warehouse or someone's basement?

Okay, so the US says, "Hm, we're all about securing everyone elses fissile materials, but gee we can't secure our own". Of course a criminal element will be introduced, and of course it will connect to The Terrorists ™, and of course it will present an Existential Threat ™ to Israel which will then be a pretext for invading whatever country we just 'happen' to find the materials in (presumably one with oil and rare mineral deposits). And, as part of the script, billions will be spent and thousands will die, etc., etc., etc.

Then again, maybe we're looking at the beginnings of the biggest false flag operation EVER.
- thedissenter
  
  Let's hope they pull the false flag on the Zionist occupied territory known as Washington, DC
thedissenter

Start looking in Israel.