Here’s how you can buy a nuke on the black market

Orvelin Valle
Updated onDec 28, 2022 8:04 AM PST
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You can buy anything on the Bulgarian black market, including drugs, women, guns and even fully functional nuclear warheads. Also read: We…

You can buy anything on the Bulgarian black market, including drugs, women, guns and even fully functional nuclear warheads. But how does someone know how to buy a nuke on the black market? Fascinated by a French reporter's ability to purchase a nuclear warhead on the black market, American journalists from Vice traveled to Bulgaria to meet the man who sold it, according to the video below.

They met with Ivanoff, a former military intelligence colonel turned entrepreneur, whose business led him into the Saudi Arabian building industry. Through his business dealings, Ivanoff met with terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden, who was interested in making a "dirty bomb" out of radioactive waste. Ivanoff suggested why not get the real thing, a nuclear warhead.

Watch how you can buy a nuke on the black market

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