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Matthew writes: A seven-year-old boy from Los Angeles, CA, has apparently developed a nuclear bomb using spare parts from his father’s salvage and scrap yard business according to reports from the Los Angeles times and the Department of Energy.

“From what we’ve been able to determine, the boy used parts his father had acquired in some kind of work-for-trade scrapyard enterprise. The father had been buying obsolete ships from the Chinese and Soviet Navies for quite some time, and stripping them for parts. The boy apparently was able to remove enough enriched uranium to cobble together a crude bomb using plans he’d downloaded from the Internet.”

“The whole thing came to light when the child apparently threatened to blow up his school if he didn’t get to go to disneyland. He had the entire school administration kowtowing to him until somebody decided to call the police. Of course, they had no idea how to handle the situation and wisely called the DoE.”

“It’s absolutely incredible that he was able to pull this off—and incredibly dangerous. The entire family is sick, and we have detected radiation signatures from eight blocks away. The site has been declared a superfund cleanup site. We’re just glad we stopped this when we did.