Case Study: North Korea

Your team has been assigned by the Director of Homeland Security to investigate the possibility that the terrorisi organization Bad Omen, based in Bluffistan might be developing a small nuclear device.

What are the necessary components of such a device?

Would a Pu$-239$ or U$-235$ device be the most likely? Why?

How much fissionable material would be required?

How would this material be produced or acquired? Which is more likely, production or acquisition?

Please report back to the Director as to how you would determine if this intelligence was true and how you would prevent the device's use in the United States. One source of information from early $2003$ is below: