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60 Minutes — Episode 9: Easy Nukes, For Better or Worse

Episode 9 of 50 · Season 41
You are watching the episode Easy Nukes, For Better or Worse Imagine the size of a 6-pack of soda able to cause a nuclear explosion. That's about all the HEU (highly enriched uranium) it would take and it's not so difficult to get.

Scott Pelley explores how easy it is to get a hold of the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb. Matthew Bunn, security expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, concurs that access to HEU is not as difficult as it should be.

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Serie: 60 Minutes

Air Date: 2008-11-23

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