Red Mercury, Part 2
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The Origins of Red Mercury
Oleg Satikov got special permission from Boris Yeltsin for his company to produce, sell and export Red Mercury. The properties bandied about by supposed Russian nuclear scientists sound a lot like an interstage. It seems particularly plausible to me that Red Mercury was the Soviet equivalent of Fogbank. But here's the wild part. Not long after he approved Satikov and Promecologia as sole makers and marketers of Red Mercury in 1993, president attempted to dissolve parliament.
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