NOVA

Season 2 Episode 14: The Plutonium Connection

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

53

Episodes:

1029

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

55 min

First Air:

1974

Rating:

7.1