Williams said Ebisawa "brazenly trafficked" the nuclear material while believing it would be used to develop a nuclear weapons program."

With the picture they chose, it's really hard for me not to read this as "Awesome guy doing the coolest stuff ever is caught by the fun police."

Come on guys, how does someone get this high in the Yakuza when they're making such rookie mistakes?

If someone says they wanna buy your plutonium to make weapons, they're a cop. You always sell your nuclear materials "for research purposes only" so you can get plausible deniability.

rip to a real one

Now I'm curious how long the US has been using the Yakuza to smuggle weapons.

why is this story not everywhere right now? Nuclear material in the hands of civilian gangsters is wayyyyyyy bigger of a story than Chinas fleet of war balloons approaching the horizon.

waow

this is a fking yakuza substory character