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The Permanent Nth country experiment. Nuclear weapons proliferation in a rapidly changing world (2007)
| Author | Mycle Schneider, European Greens |
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6-03-0-00-102.pdf |
| Date | March 2007 |
| Classification | 6.03.0.00/102 (PROLIFERATION - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
The Permanent Nth Country Experiment
Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in a Rapidly Changing World
"The purpose of the so-called 'Nth Country Experiment' is to
find out if a credible nuclear explosive can be designed,
with a modest effort, by a few well-trained people without
contact with classified information. The goal of the
participants should be to design an explosive with a
militarily significant yield. A working context for the
experiment might be that the participants have been asked
to design a nuclear explosive which, if built in small
numbers, would give a small nation a significant effect on
their foreign relations."
Operating Rules
for the Nth Country Experiment
1964
by
Mycle Schneider
International Consultant on Energy and Nuclear Policy
Paris, 24 March 2007
Commissioned
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Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3
Energy & Bombs: Two Faces of the Same Coin ................................................................... 4
The Uranium Path .............................................................................................................. 5
The Plutonium Path............................................................................................................ 6
Nuclear Weapon Designs ......................................................................................................... 8
Could Sub-national Groups Design a Nuclear Weapon? ..................................................... 10
Access to Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)..........