That old Russian spy, and new British citizen, Alexander Litvinenko, was alleged to have been a victim of Putin’s revenge gang at the KGB. Because where, after all, could one get one’s hands on the exotic material, Polonium 210, that killed him? Ah, well now, it turns out you can buy it on the Web, at $69 a pop. Safety-sealed (for transport protection) but with a half-life of 138 days. Easy as pie.
Via SlashDot
UPDATE Snoop, at SimplyJews, says the quantity of these samples isn’t enough to kill anyone. Ah, but what if you bought a few hundred of them?
UPDATE2 Well, the seller, United Nuclear, finally has weighed in on the topic and scotched my notion with this notation on their website: "You would need about 15,000 of our Polonium-210 needle sources at a total cost of about $1 million – to have a toxic amount." Plus, they couldn’t sell you such a large amount, since they don’t stock the stuff but buy it from government reactors which will only sell small amounts.
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