The Hazard from Plutonium Dispersal by Nuclear-warhead Accidents
| dc.contributor.author | Fetter, Steve | |
| dc.contributor.author | Frank, von Hippel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-02-21T19:41:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-02-21T19:41:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1990 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nuclear weapons are carefully designed to have an extremely low probability of exploding accidentally with an appreciable yield—even if they are involved in a high-speed crash, struck by a bullet or consumed in a fire. The principal concern when nuclear warheads are involved in such accidents is the possible dispersal of plutonium into the environment. In particular, an explosion could disperse a significant fraction of the plutonium in a warhead as particles of respirable size. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Steve Fetter and Frank von Hippel, "The Hazard from Plutonium Dispersal by Nuclear-warhead Accidents," Science and Global Security, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1990), pp. 21–41 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4300 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | School of Public Policy | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Public Policy | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_us |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_us |
| dc.rights.license | Taylor & Francis, Science and Global Security: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08929882.asp | en_us |
| dc.subject | nuclear weapons | en |
| dc.subject | plutonium | en |
| dc.subject | insensitive high explosive | en |
| dc.subject | plutonium aerosols | en |
| dc.title | The Hazard from Plutonium Dispersal by Nuclear-warhead Accidents | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |