The Origins of Red Mercury

With the Soviet Union crumbling, there were plenty of places like St. Petersburg where the primary goal was just not starving to death. Whoever started trying to hawk red mercury is probably the real origin. After President Yeltsin's 1993 constitutional crisis and Vice President Rutsky's promised to investigate red mercury dealings,. Alcor backed off of red mercury and returned to its old business-making optical glass. Palmer was dissolved. And so was the mysterious scientific ventures group. Whatever assets they might have held were divided between Alcor and the chairman of the external relations committee. These were the beginnings of the personal fortune of a man who would eventually become one of the richest in the world. That's right