How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and put together a blackmail weapon of unprecedented power in the shape of a homemade atom bomb? That question is posed by Theodore Taylor, former A and H bomb designer at Los Alamos, in a recent book, The Curve of Binding Energy. NOVA investigates just how easy it would be to design a bomb using unclassified information. |
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Title: | The Plutonium Connection | |
Air Date: | March 9, 1975 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | History Nature | |
MISKO_KAWN : Wrong ep.