Following up on a report in The Telegraph that uranium was discovered in an al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan, but that the uranium was U-238, Alex Knapp at Heretical Ideas writes:

if al-Qaeda’s uranium was U-238 then they got scammed, because U-238 is virtually non-radioactive. The reader also points out that there are con-men who make a living selling U-238 and depleted uranium (non-radioactive) to terrorists. Nice to know that Dark Helmet had it wrong: good will always triumph because evil is dumb.

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