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Did you catch the story on 0bama telling Japan to give back the plutonium about a week ago?

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Did you catch the story on 0bama telling Japan to give back the plutonium about a week ago?

Nope, I didn't - thanks for letting me know about it.

I just looked it up. The US successfully pressured Japan into returning 300kg of very high-grade, British-made plutonium. Supposedly used in testing new reactor technology, but enough to manufacture 40-50 nuclear weapons.

However Japan retains 44 TONS of lesser-grade plutonium. No mention of whether it's weapons grade or not (I can't remember if plutonium is weapons-grade at all levels, unlike Uranium which needs to be refined), but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. Or if, at some point in the last 50-60 years the US provided the technical information and support necessary for Japan to have a turn-key nuke-building operation (sort of like what we allegedly did in helping the Israelis)