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David didn’t have to work very hard. He didn’t come up with an overly complicated plan to get the material. No, he just called up some organizations and pretended to be a chemistry professor. He wrote a few letters to some institutes, signed under a false alias, and before he knew it he had laid his hands on dangerous radioactive materials.
He contacted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the Edison Electric Institute and the Atomic Industrial Forum. None of these parties questioned his identity. They were all happy to help with his life-threatening chemistry experiment.
This was not the only way he got the dangerous materials…