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Could Terrorists Produce Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons?
Could Terrorists Produce Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons?
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Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute Quite recently, most specialists have implied that terrorists would try to produce nuclear weapons using existing scientific knowledge and technical potential. For example, the Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC)
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Estimates of the fizzle yield were made by Dr. Carson Mark, former Theoretical Division Leader of Los Alamos National Laboratory.3 He considered "as a purely hypothetical example" a weapons-grade plutonium assembly of the implosion type used at Trinity (the first American nuclear test, July 16, 1945)
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This results in a more powerful shockwave and thermal effects. One can estimate the "kill range" of a 2-ton nuclear blast using corresponding scaling laws and reference data about the consequences of the nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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1995. Nuclear Weapons Databook: The Role of Hydronuclear Tests and Other Low-Yield Nuclear Explosions and Their Status Under a Comprehensive Test Ban.
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