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Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards







Table of Contents

List of Tables ix
List of Figures x
Foreword McGeorge Bundy xi
Preface S. David Freeman xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter One Introduction 1
Chapter Two Nuclear Weapons 5
Overview 5
Resources Required To Make Fission Explosives 10
Effects of Nuclear Explosions 21
Radiological Weapons 24
Pure Fusion Explosives 28
Chapter Three Nuclear Fuel Cycles: 1973–80 29
Introduction 29
Power Reactor Fuel Cycles 30
Research and Development Uses of Nuclear Materials 56