GBH Openvault

NOVA; Plutonium Connection, The

02/15/1975

Dub of 2” made on 4/24/98 Original Record Date 2/15/75


License Clip

This program cannot be made available on Open Vault.

More material may be available from this program at the GBH Archives. If you would like research access to the collection at GBH, please email archive_requests@wgbh.org.

Series
NOVA
Program
Plutonium Connection, The
Program Number

214

Series Description

Premiered March 1974 NOVA is a general-interest documentary series that addresses a single science issue each week. Billed as "science adventures for curious grown-ups" when it first aired in March, 1974, NOVA continues to offer an informative and entertaining approach to a challenging subject. 1996 marked NOVA's 23rd season, which makes it the longest-running science program on national television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. Series release date: 3/3/1974

Program Description

It's easy to build an atom bomb from non-classified materials. 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.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres
Documentary
Topics
Science
Citation
Chicago: “NOVA; Plutonium Connection, The,” 02/15/1975, GBH Archives, accessed July 27, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E6259EB9BA3143D28F83F2182E3D4586.
MLA: “NOVA; Plutonium Connection, The.” 02/15/1975. GBH Archives. Web. July 27, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E6259EB9BA3143D28F83F2182E3D4586>.
APA: NOVA; Plutonium Connection, The. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E6259EB9BA3143D28F83F2182E3D4586
If you have more information about this item, we want to know! Please contact us, including the URL.