Word: willrich
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...first bomb. It is not surprising that four years ago a precocious 14-year-old sketched the workings of a nuclear explosive and included it as part of a bomb threat that terrified Orlando, Fla., for 36 hours. Nor is cost a deterrent. University of Virginia Professor Mason Willrich, a nuclear-arms expert, estimates that a weapons fabrication and assembly plant that can manufacture ten fission warheads annually costs about $8 million to build. Each 20-kiloton warhead would run less than $15 million, plus the cost of the fissionable material. This is within the reach of even the most...
...longer is absurd to imagine Palestinian terrorists or urban guerrillas stealing enough Pu-239, hiring scientists and manufacturing an easily transportable nuclear explosive. As Arms Expert Dr. Theodore B. Taylor points out, one terrorist group with one bomb could blackmail a metropolis. The University of Virginia's Willrich fears that some day a black market in fissionable materials could develop, with syndicates of organized criminals stealing from private reactors and selling to individuals or governments...
...Energy Commission and released last week by the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization labels the nation's safeguards against nuclear theft and blackmail as "entirely inadequate to meet the threat." A study conducted for the Ford Foundation by Atomic Physicist Theodore B. 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...
...physical size and his range of voice give the character more power than the lines alone provide, and his constant shifts from violence to tenderness make us as unsure about Henry's madness as we are meant to be. With the possible exception of Linda de Coff and Rudolph Willrich, who play Matilde's daughter and Henry's nephew without managing to bring any life to their admittedly superficial parts, the supporting cast generally lives up to the star. Eileen Herlie plays the cynical or flamboyant side of Matilde especially well (she gets slightly weaker as the part becomes more...
Speaking before the American Nuclear Society and the Atomic Industrial Forum in Washington, D.C., Professor Mason Willrich, who chaired an international body of experts studying the problem, said that most scientists in the field "consider the design and manufacture of a crude nuclear explosive device to be no longer an extremely difficult task technically." He warned that both the amount of nuclear material and the number of people who have access to it are growing at a disturbing rate. A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission pointed out that the construction of even the most rudimentary device would require...