Nuclear Material Reaches Black Market

Nuclear Material Reaches Black Market

Nuclear material- capable of being converted into an atomic device- is reportedly being sold on the international black market.

The London Times reports from New Delhi that India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has discovered nearly $3 million worth of refined uranium has been illegally smuggled out of India.

The CBI has questioned a number of suspects and found that the rich uranium, after being treated at a government processing plant, is being loaded into plastic bags and sold on the underground market.

The CBI has also reportedly discovered the operation is being coordinated by an "international gang."

This is the first known instance of the large-scale diversion of atomic fuel to underground sources. Nuclear experts have been waming that, unless proper safeguards are enacted, atomic materials will fall into the hands of terrorists who would be capable of making an A-bomb and then blackmailing an entire city or nation.

-ZODIAC