It means that preliminary plans for plutonium pit bomb production at two sites designated to manufacture “pits”, Savannah River Site in South Carolina and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New ...

Newly designed plutonium pits will serve as “triggers” for the next generation of nuclear warheads mounted atop Sentinel, the next generation of intercontinental ballistic missile, and for new ...

A newly released report from the Union of Concerned Scientists argues for reusing existing nuclear weapon cores from ...

New Mexican' covered fallout from 1945 Santa Fe meeting where Manhattan Project spy passed along plutonium bomb plans to his ...

Often, plutonium is used. With its long half-life ... Certainly, there has never been a nuclear bomb in space and never any nuclear explosion, right? The Space Treaty explicitly forbids it!

(Did the U.S. plan to drop more than two atomic bombs on Japan?) The first nuclear explosion was of a plutonium implosion device conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945 in the Jornada ...

Plutonium pits are hollow spheres that cause the nuclear explosion of these deadly weapons. Usually, a chemical explosion will compress the pit, triggering a fission reaction within the plutonium.

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Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on expanding nuclear ...

the device yielded a 15 megaton explosion—allegedly the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated by the US. Ebisawa’s access to plutonium went beyond its potential for devastation.