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sig hecker saw some of the idlem eqt on one of his visits. but the bush administration and north korea abandoned the agreement after each accused the other of not mng its terms. and u.s. intelligence sources indicated the north was trying to produce highly enriched uranium. it is a required ingredient in the most powerful, compact nuclr weapons. the north korean pursuit of that is a bigger mystery. >> the plutonium is known much more finely becae north korea has revealed much more about its plutonium program becae of earlier arms control agreements' thnever been a declaration at all by north korea on its uranium enrichment program. >> reporter: uranium, mined from rock, must be enriched to be potent enough to make a bomb. a chemical process transforms it into a gas and it is pumped into a centrifuge as it spins, the heavier isotope uranium 238 separates from the lighter weapons grade uranium 235. the shopping list for uranium centrifuges includes high- strength aluminum and specialty steel, very specific, telltale if you know what you're look
sig hecker saw some of the idlem eqt on one of his visits. but the bush administration and north korea abandoned the agreement after each accused the other of not mng its terms. and u.s. intelligence sources indicated the north was trying to produce highly enriched uranium. it is a required ingredient in the most powerful, compact nuclr weapons. the north korean pursuit of that is a bigger mystery. >> the plutonium is known much more finely becae north korea has revealed much more about...
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air force major general james hecker recently said afghanistan has "become centcom's main effort." amy: the news comes after a particularly bloody period in afghanistan. last year, the united states said civilian casualties in 2017 had reached a record high in afghanistan. meanwhile, about 10,000 of afghanistan security forces were reportedly killed over the past year. despite the spiraling violence, president trump recently ruled out negotiations with the taliban. during a meeting of members of the united nations security council. pres. trump: we will also discuss what more we can do to defeat the taliban. i don't t see any talking taken place. i don't think we're prepared to talk right now. whole different fight over there. they're killing people left and right, innocent people are being killed left and right. bombing in the middle of families. killing all over afghanistan. there e is no talking to the taliban. we don't wantnt to talk to the taliban. we're going to finish what nobody else has been able to finish. amy: we turn now to steve coll, a journalist who has reported on af
air force major general james hecker recently said afghanistan has "become centcom's main effort." amy: the news comes after a particularly bloody period in afghanistan. last year, the united states said civilian casualties in 2017 had reached a record high in afghanistan. meanwhile, about 10,000 of afghanistan security forces were reportedly killed over the past year. despite the spiraling violence, president trump recently ruled out negotiations with the taliban. during a meeting of...
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. >> reporter: nuclear physicist sig hecker is one of those people he ran the los alamos national laboratory from 1986 through 1997. he supports the open source sleuthing. >> the open-source infor the public and what's actually important, of course when you do open-source, you do get more eyes on the problem, more people to think about it, more people who think in ways that perhaps and north korea might think that then what we havin our government. >> reporter: in ct, marco lanbroek says his website is routinely visited by c.i.a., and jeffrey lewis and his team gets invitations to brief government analysts. so what is the take-away for the concerned public? even though north korea has not proven it has a weapon small and robust enough to survive the fiery re-entry into the atmosphere, it can launch a missile with enough payload to carry a bomb to anamerican ty. for the pbs newshour, i'm milese w >> woodruff: you cch all three of miles o'brien's reports on north korea's nuclear capabilities online at pbs dot org slash newshour. stay with us, coming up, a mysterious and fatal disease affecting
. >> reporter: nuclear physicist sig hecker is one of those people he ran the los alamos national laboratory from 1986 through 1997. he supports the open source sleuthing. >> the open-source infor the public and what's actually important, of course when you do open-source, you do get more eyes on the problem, more people to think about it, more people who think in ways that perhaps and north korea might think that then what we havin our government. >> reporter: in ct, marco...
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. >> reporter: nuclear physicist sig hecker is with the center for international security and cooperationford university. he ran the los alamos national laboratory from 1986 through 1997 and has visited north korea seven times. he believes the first weapon they tested was akin to fat man, the bomb that the us dropped on nagasaki.in t, high explosives implode a plutonium core, using an instant nuclear chain reaction or explosion. north korea's first test in 2006 was an apparent failur but in 2009, test number two was a success. since then, the yields have grown steadily larger. and that leads experts to believe the north koreans have developed a so caed boosted fission bomb. >> the boosted bomb is one where you take highly enriched uranium or plutonium and you actually put the fusion fuel inside to sort of help light more of the plutonium or highly enriched uranium. >> reporter: in 1957, great britain tested a one stage boosted thermonuclear bomb. it's yield: 720 kilotons, or about 50 hiroshima bombs. as but the trouble with them is as you incthe yield, it gets bigger and bigger in diamete
. >> reporter: nuclear physicist sig hecker is with the center for international security and cooperationford university. he ran the los alamos national laboratory from 1986 through 1997 and has visited north korea seven times. he believes the first weapon they tested was akin to fat man, the bomb that the us dropped on nagasaki.in t, high explosives implode a plutonium core, using an instant nuclear chain reaction or explosion. north korea's first test in 2006 was an apparent failur but...
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isaac hecker, who started before the civil war said that he would rather suffer the excesses of liberty than the arbitrary decisions of tyranny. the police in this case were not the first responders. schoolsdetectors in imprisons our children. i have been calling for 20 years, 20 five years, for human rights courts. capacity to uphold the truth that all are created equal. in a label -- in alienable rights -- we have rights. a system foreate the 21st century for all of our children and all of our men and women. i'm sorry but this country was see, whether it is the me too to movement or the black lives movement, are being put on the mental health of people, post-traumatic stress from being raped. it is not about that. , awe would respect people property owner could bring to protect acourt property in 15 days. why can't a hater you brought in? on time, butshort thank you very much. i want to spend one moment to share the faces of the 17 that died. this is from the sun sentinel website. we will look at them for just a moment. host: the youngest victim was 14. a football coach and a geograph
isaac hecker, who started before the civil war said that he would rather suffer the excesses of liberty than the arbitrary decisions of tyranny. the police in this case were not the first responders. schoolsdetectors in imprisons our children. i have been calling for 20 years, 20 five years, for human rights courts. capacity to uphold the truth that all are created equal. in a label -- in alienable rights -- we have rights. a system foreate the 21st century for all of our children and all of...