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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.
First Air Date : Mar 03, 1974
Last Air date : Apr 29, 2026
Episode : 1020 Episode
Season : 53 Season
Runtime: 55:14 minutes
Studio: PBS
Country: United States of America
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