Belfer Center Home > Publications > Press Release or Announcement > Media Features > What is a Nuclear Bomb?

EmailEmail   PrintPrint Bookmark and Share

 

What is a Nuclear Bomb?

Media Feature

November 30, 2007

Related: Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom

 

This is the third in a series of videos on nuclear terrorism based on Graham Allison's book Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. In this episode, Matthew Bunn, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government and author of Securing the Bomb, describes what happens when a nuclear bomb is detonated.

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

Watch the entire video series:

  1. Nuclear Terrorism: An Introduction
  2. A World of Three No’s
  3. What is a Nuclear Bomb?
  4. A Global Problem
  5. Rolling Back Proliferation

The videos were produced and directed by George Billard, edited by Katie Mantell, and were originally presented at http://www.nuclearterrorism.tv/.

 

For more information about this publication please contact the Lauren Protentis at 617 495 1408.

Full text of this publication is available at:
http://nuclearterrorism.tv/blog/?p=12

For Academic Citation:

"What is a Nuclear Bomb?.", November 30, 2007.

Bookmark and Share

A World of Three No’s
By Graham Allison, Matthew Bunn and Senator Sam Nunn

A Global Problem
By Graham Allison, Matthew Bunn and Senator Sam Nunn

Defending the United States Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Graham Allison, Matthew Bunn, Ashton B. Carter, John M. Deutch, Richard A. Falkenrath, John P. Holdren, Robert Newman and Joseph S. Nye

<em>International Security</em>

The spring 2013 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available!

SUBSCRIBE

Get the latest research on the most important international topics

Receive email updates on the most pressing topics in international affairs and science.

Events Calendar

We host a busy schedule of events throughout the fall, winter and spring. Past guests include: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former Vice President Al Gore, and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.