14-th episode of 2-th season "NOVA"

What "NOVA" 14-th episode about

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.

Episode number: 14

Episode name: "The Plutonium Connection"

Episode release date: 10 march 1975 at 01:00

Status: aired