Nova

Season 2 Episode 14: The Plutonium Connection

51 Seasons Mar 09, 1975 TV-PG 55m 8.7

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.

Nova background

Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Why Do Birds Sing?

1. Why Do Birds Sing?

Aired: Nov 3, 1974

NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surp...

Episode 4 The Secrets of Sleep

4. The Secrets of Sleep

Aired: Nov 24, 1974

Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand rem...

Episode 7 Red Sea Coral

7. Red Sea Coral

Aired: Dec 15, 1974

NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in th...

Episode 12 The Lysenko Affair

12. The Lysenko Affair

Aired: Feb 9, 1975

NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early ...

Episode 13 The Tuaregs

13. The Tuaregs

Aired: Feb 16, 1975

High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives...

Episode 15 The Other Way

15. The Other Way

Aired: Mar 16, 1975

Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. S...


Appearances

Info about Nova

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Documentary