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ah united nuclear, purveyors of high quality reagents for the discerning, jittery, sleepless grad student found in only the most prestigious government watch lists and infuriatingly paywalled technical journals since nineteen sixty-one.

Thats right United Nuclear, a beguiling reminder to mankind that the entire predicate of the Iraq war could just as easily have been a secret santa gift.

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Can someone explain what this means?

it's a slightly poetic and roundabout way of saying "This website will sell you some funny toys and some slightly radioactive stuff [like uranium ore, i guess, from previous comments]. "By the way, remember when the US invaded Iraq because we claimed they had stuff which is [allegedly, maybe, i dunno] remarkably similar to what you can order as a gift from this website?"

A "secret santa" is a gift giving tradition where you pool a group of people together and each person gets the name of someone and buys them a Christmas gift (generally within some price range) but they don't know who bought them the gift. So it's an opportunity to buy joke-gifts for someone you aren't particularly close to, if you happen to draw their name.

https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&p...

Not just a dessert (topping), but also a floor wax (well, not really, but pretense for Iraq War) (https://spyscape.com/article/saddam-husseins-fake-uranium)

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