None of Uranium One was covert or involved smuggling though. I don't know how much you know about the mining business, but it certainly wasn't covert, see these articles from back when.
https://www.reuters.com/article/cbusiness-us-uraniumone-armz-idCATRE6573WR20100608
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-ARMZ_takes_hold_of_Uranium_One-0906107.html
https://www.energyintel.com/0000017b-a7b7-de4c-a17b-e7f7729f0001
Russia already has lot of nukes don't they?
Like thousands?
They also mine uranium.
Russia produces thousands of tonnes of Uranium a year.
The uranium you dig up out the ground is not the stuff you make nukes with. It's way far away from the Tom Clancy book which was about the sale of an actual nuclear weapon. The stuff you dig out of the ground is just crushed up rocks and is not reactive -- pretty cheap $65 a pound. Standard uranium mining produces stuff that is not reactive because only less than 1% of the stuff you dig up is the isotope we are concerned with. Remember when Bush and Cheney lied to us about yellow cake?
Un-enriched uranium is bought and sold every day and not really dangerous. My aunt used to have dishes glazed with uranium.
So this all seems rather baroque or overly complicated.
None of Uranium One was covert or involved smuggling though. I don't know how much you know about the mining business, but it certainly wasn't covert, see these articles from back when.
https://www.reuters.com/article/cbusiness-us-uraniumone-armz-idCATRE6573WR20100608
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-ARMZ_takes_hold_of_Uranium_One-0906107.html
https://www.energyintel.com/0000017b-a7b7-de4c-a17b-e7f7729f0001
Russia already has lot of nukes don't they?
Like thousands?
They also mine uranium.
Russia produces thousands of tonnes of Uranium a year.
The uranium you dig up out the ground is not the stuff you make nukes with. It's way far away from the Tom Clancy stuff It's pretty cheap $65 a pound. Standard uranium ming. It's bought and sold every day. My aunt used to have dishes glazed with uranium.
So this all seems rather baroque or overly complicated.