Polymarket takes down nuclear detonation bet after online backlash

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The prediction market would've paid out to traders if a nuclear weapon had been detonated anywhere in the world before a specific date.

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US agents fooled a yakuza boss into giving them weapons-grade plutonium he thought would be sold to Iran: court docs

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A Geiger counter held over yellow drums.
A photo included in the indictment against Ebisawa, showing a Geiger counter held over yellow industrial drums.

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A nuclear bomb is still missing after it was dropped off the Georgia coastline 65 years ago

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A man stands near a large metal casing for the Mark-17 thermonuclear weapon
This casing of a Mark 17 thermonuclear bomb was manufactured around the same time as the lost Mark 15 weapon.

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Bavarian boars may be radioactive because of truffles contaminated by nuclear weapon testing decades ago

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A wild boar runs among trees and branches in the Bavarian wildlife park of Mehlmeisel, Germany
Researchers think they may have discovered the mystery of the "wild boar paradox" that makes these animals so radioactive in Germany.

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