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Widespread Rejection Meets A Lone Doubter
- Red Mercury is widely dismissed by governments and experts as a fiction despite persistent rumors and arrests.
- The host Mark Chrysler admits he will argue the minority case that Red Mercury might be real.
Three Origin Theories Fall Short
- Skeptical origins place Red Mercury as a created rumor by the Soviets, the West, or the Russian mob.
- The host rejects all three simple conspiracy explanations as unsatisfying and implausible.
Collapse Elevated MUF And Black Markets
- The Soviet collapse raised acute fears about material unaccounted for (MUF) and loose nuclear material.
- That chaos made black-market trafficking of nuclear-related material plausible and widespread.