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    Default I found this surprising - mail order radioactive stuff

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/

    I understand that work needs to be done to this stuff to make a dirty bomb, but it was also my understanding that acquiring the stuff was the hard part. Doesn't seem to hard to me.

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    Wow, I wonder how they ship them.

    I though that they had to use spent uranium for dirty bombs. I am not sure if the stuff they sell there would work. I am by no means educated in this area. I am sure somebody here knows for sure.
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    you can use any radioactive stuff in a dirty bomb, it's just that there is a lot of spent uranium out there. But you're right, you would need a lot of the stuff they sell, but when you have billions in oil money.....

    that place also sells metals and chemicals like thermite and a thermite activator. Crazy.

    Sodium metal is pretty cool though. You can chuck that stuff into a pond and it explodes and pops and jumps around.

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    Yeah, these guys made slashdot (or boingboing?) yesterday. You can apparently order the stuff that killed the x Russian Spy guy in England right off the site...

    I'm not sure how they get away with it, but it would be interesting to see if any of the past customers reside in Tehran....

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    Wow, I cant believe that you can just buy that stuff like that. Not only can it be used in bad ways, but you can also hurt yourself and others on accident if you dont know what your doing with some of that stuff there. Scary.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nhcigarfan View Post
    you can use any radioactive stuff in a dirty bomb, it's just that there is a lot of spent uranium out there. But you're right, you would need a lot of the stuff they sell, but when you have billions in oil money.....

    that place also sells metals and chemicals like thermite and a thermite activator. Crazy.

    Sodium metal is pretty cool though. You can chuck that stuff into a pond and it explodes and pops and jumps around.
    Haha...that is awesome. I had a friend who had all sorts of that crazy stuff. He was an insane pyro when he was like 10. I remember being over at his house and he had like a 2"*24" round solid piece of magnesium. He was pretty crazy.
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    Im sure the government checks out that stuff when you purchase it too so they are probably tracking anyone who even goes to that site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Empire23 View Post
    Wow, I cant believe that you can just buy that stuff like that. Not only can it be used in bad ways, but you can also hurt yourself and others on accident if you dont know what your doing with some of that stuff there. Scary.
    I think they went to great lengths in the disclaimer at the bottom of the page to explain that the microscopic amounts of the bad shit they sell are not harmfull.

    They list as an example, the radioactive stuff in our household smoke detectors is in a larger quanity than the radioactive shit they sell.
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    In not really talking about the radioactive stuff, Im talking about the stuff like Thermite and the ignitor. That stuff burns at like 5000 degrees and will burn through almost anything. Oh and the fact that you cant just put it out like a fire, could really do some damage.

    Oh yeah and after checking out some of their other pages there are disclamers on that page saying "PAY ATTENTION... OR DIE!" haha, its true.
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    Haha, Im hooked on this website now. Ive been on it for the last hour or so looking at all the cool stuff they have on there. They have stuff from making smoke bombs to aerial shells. I might actually buy some stuff from them as christmas presents 8)
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