The Plutonium Connection Nova : Season 2 Episode 14
TV-PG PBS 1h 00m
Aired: March 9th, 1975 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
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.
