The Plutonium Connection

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NOVA
Season 2
Episode Number :14
Rate : Not Rated
RunTime :55 mins
Air Date :1975-03-09
Story : 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.