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Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms
Lasrick (2629253) writes The blossoming of online Internet-trading platforms has at least one downside: insufficient inspectors and product controls when it comes to goods relevant to nuclear proliferation. "On Alibaba (and other platforms), one can purchase many of the specialized items needed for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. A short list of items advertised for sale on the site include metals suitable for centrifuge manufacturing, gauges and pumps for centrifuge cascades for uranium enrichment, metallurgical casting equipment suitable for making nuclear weapon 'pits,' and high-speed cameras suitable for use in nuclear weapon diagnostic tests. A company on an Alibaba-owned Chinese Internet-trading platform even posted an ad for the sale of the rare metal gallium, which the seller trumpeted could be used to stabilize plutonium." Although many companies have strict compliance procedures in place to help avoid proliferation, many do not. There are several procedures these platforms can put into place to minimize risk, and both national (and international) regulators have a role to play, as well as shareholders.
I think you might want to switch to Reddit.
Name any chemical and I'll find a way to make a bomb out of that crap.
Argon.
H2O2 can be used to make the explosive TAPT which is popular with the Islamist extremist crowd, and which has been used in multiple attacks including the 2005 London bombings.
Dual-use regulation is inconvenient, not bullshit.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
You don't really strike me as the type that knows nothing about improvised explosives.
The fact that you apparently know your way around circuit boards is icing on the cake.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
...just try to get some HCl or H2O2 in Europe today
High concentration solutions of H2O2 are almost certainly under controls due to the popularity of TATP as an improvised explosive among terrorist groups. H2O2 is a key ingredient for that.
TAPT was used in the London bombings in 2005.
It would be strange, don't you think, for people that advocate gun control to oppose controls on bomb making materials?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell