Stolen Nuclear Bomb Plans Sold On Black Market

Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is under house arrest, is being accused of selling stolen, sophisticated nuclear weapons blueprints to dangerous parties in the Middle East.

Doc "1.21 gigawatz" Brown (Back to the Future)

The information was discovered on computers "belonging to the smuggling network" A.Q. Khan is said to be head of. Washington is not sure who Khan sold the plans to, but are concerned at the news, as several entities in the region have been producing more sophisticated weapons, resembling the swiped blueprints.

Nuclear weapons often contain uranium or plutonium (you know, stuff that ends in "ium"). I saw a photo of plutonium and it was in the form of a cylindrical, metal object.

Being the brilliant scientific mind I am I thought to myself that can't be plutonium. In the movie "Back to the Future" it was in liquid form and in vials. That thing (pictured below) looks like a discus (though I wouldn't advise you throwing it):

Plutonium

Then I scrolled down some more and there were the vials of plutonium -just like in Back To The Future. Where's Doc Brown when you need him.

Plutonium

Seriously, this news is quite alarming, especially in light of how negligent the government can be in matters of national security.

Nuclear ring reportedly had advanced design

Published: June 15, 2008 - WASHINGTON: American and international investigators say that they have found the electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist, but that they have not been able to determine whether they were sold to Iran or the smuggling ring's other customers.

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