According to the British newspaper The Times, a memo has already been drafted at the Ministry of Defense suggesting that Ukraine could quickly embark on a project to build a plutonium-based bomb ...
Once detonated, the explosives condense the plutonium surrounding the case so ... the first US thermonuclear bomb test. Although initially estimated in 1959 to generate a blast equivalent to ...
The city's Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production facility that was part of the U.S. government's Manhattan Project and produced plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.