Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150403:08:02:00
Wartime anywhere on earth. we have not come up with a lot of new ideas about nuclear weapons since then. it's still basically those two kinds of weapons. pick one. it's either a uranium bomb or a plutonium bomb. the logistics of it are pretty simple. uranium is something that can be mined all over the world. when uranium comes out of the dirt, it contains less than 1% of the isotope that's useful in a nuclear context. in the dirt, it starts off at less than 1%. if you enrich that uranium to four or 5% of that particular isotope, well, four or 5%, that's the level that gets used in nuclear powe...