Uzbekistan blackmarket uranium
Posted: 1st August 2025
An Uzbek court has convicted a group of individuals who sought to sell 120 grams of natural uranium, the heavy metal element required in the making of a nuclear bomb. While the amount they were attempting to sell, at a price of $2,000 per gram, would only make up a tiny fraction of the uranium volume a nuclear bomb maker would need for enrichment, national security officials the world over are wary of such black market sales reaching a frequency that would enable terrorist, or other malign actors, to source the volume of material needed for an atomic weapon from an assortment of sellers.