Dr. Hecker assures us the plutonium was completely harmless.
Jimmy Carter: Nobel Prize, 2002, for giving the nuclear bomb to North Korea.
AlGore, Nobel Prize, 2007, for lying to the world about anthropogenic global warming.
Barack Hussein Obama, Nobel Prize, 2009, for not being George W. Bush.
Poor John F’ing Kerry must feel left out. Maybe the Nobel committee can give him the half of the 1973 Prize refused by Le Duc Tho.
It’s supposedly very difficult to machine due to it’s 7 allotropes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_plutonium
I once had a brief conversation with Dr. Hecker in a salad bar line, though we didn’t discuss plutonium.