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...raiders directed that the 26 prisoners be taken to Frankfurt airport, given $20,000 apiece, and flown in a Lufthansa 707 jetliner to an unspecified foreign country. Otherwise, they added, they would shoot one hostage every hour and finally would blow up the embassy with 33 Ibs. of TNT...
...year-old undergraduate chemistry student to try to design an A-bomb in five weeks, working alone and using only published information available to the general public. The result: a blueprint for a plutonium bomb with an estimated destructive capability of 100 to 1,000 tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease with which he mastered basic bomb making, sketching the structure of his bomb in a childlike doodle of two circles and a dot: "You explode the outer ring of TNT which squeezes the tamper which compresses the plutonium core, and boom." Could...
...Russians are ringing Moscow.) The second agreement strengthens the 1963 treaty banning major nuclear-weapons testing everywhere except underground. Starting on March 31, 1976, both countries will be restricted to testing warheads with yields of less than 150 kilotons-the equivalent of 150,000 tons of TNT. The delay in enforcement will give the Soviets time to complete the testing of warheads for their new family of huge missiles. The U.S. will have time to finish developing a new warhead for the 7,000-mile-range Minuteman III and a special bomb for the Air Force...
What gives the Soviets this ability is the greater power of their rockets. The S59 and the new SS-18 have "throw-weights" capable of launching warheads packing 25 megatons, equal to 25 million tons of TNT. The most powerful U.S. rocket, the aging Titan 2 (of which 54 are still in operation), can accommodate only a ten-megaton warhead...
...Taylor and Arms Control Expert Mason Willrich makes the point even more strongly. In "Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards," Taylor and Willrich report that amateur bombmakers could probably put together weapons as small as one-tenth of a kiloton (equivalent to the explosive force of 100 tons of TNT). Such bombs, says Taylor, would be powerful enough to topple the twin towers of Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center or destroy the U.S. Capitol building...