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Plutonium Connection, The

• 1976 ----- color ----- 59 min ----- 16mm
• (Nova series) The technical information required to build an atomic bomb is accessible to anyone. All that's needed to make it deadly is a small amount of plutonium. And plutonium--the processed waste product of nuclear reactors--will become increasingly available as more processing plants are put into operation. Even now, inventory control is only accurate to within one percent. In the future, that will represent several pounds of plutonium--enough to build a number of bombs. What is to prevent an individual or a country from constructing a bomb and using it for terrorism?
• Topics: (Atomic Energy)

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