 Indian police found weapons-grade uranium on two men who were arrested in the country's north on suspicion of being drug peddlers, a report said yesterday. The discovery of 253.6 grams of "99 per cent uranium" was made when police pounced on Khurshid and Aslam last December in Uttar Pradesh state's Bareilly district, the Times of India said, giving only the first names of the two men. The uranium plates were found in a lead-lined sophisticated box, police said. | How is a lead-lined box 'sophisticated'? |
| It's all in the hinges... |
The substance was sent for analysis to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay which sent back a report stating the rods were "99pc uranium by weight". "I will not hazard a guess about where the uranium was headed," said director general of police R P Singh. "A number of top investigating agencies are currently looking into that," he added.
| 48 hour rule on this one. Bet a geiger counter doesn't even blip when passed over the rods. |
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