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by f7ebc20c97
1532 days ago
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I wonder what it sold for, besides the trinkets mentioned at the end. If they had hodled they could clear maybe a trillion on the open market today (which consists of sovereign states). Highly enriched U-235 would also be a sound basis for a commodity-backed hard currency, though not quite as good as the US Dollar and the Ruble which are backed by Pu-239. |
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Nuclear bomb construction material has no open market, it's only held by nuclear powers who work hard to prevent anyone else from possessing it (see the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) - that's the big stick, resulting in North Korea tier sanctions. The trinkets were the carrot.
Kazakhstan made a nuanced calculation of the risk of holding the enriched Uranium, concluded it wasn't worth it.