{"id":99971,"date":"2019-12-20T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/pac-man-era-microchip-could-help-gobble-up-nuclear-warheads"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:44:02","slug":"pac-man-era-microchip-could-help-gobble-up-nuclear-warheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/pac-man-era-microchip-could-help-gobble-up-nuclear-warheads","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man-era microchip could help gobble up nuclear warheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pac-man-era-microchip-could-help-gobble-up-nuclear-warheads3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Russian nuclear inspectors traveled to the U.S. in the early 2000s, they were not allowed to directly examine classified nuclear weapon components, Professor Alex Glaser said. Instead, the inspectors were shown a radiation detector\u2019s green light as confirmation that components were real.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians were not convinced, Glaser said, noting that one said the only thing the test proved was that the Americans had a green LED with a battery connection.<\/p>\n<p>Details about <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/nuclear+weapons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear weapons<\/a> remain among the world\u2019s most highly guarded secrets. An expert dismantling a weapon, or even witnessing its destruction, can learn much about the warhead. On the other hand, without examining the weapon, it\u2019s difficult to convince inspectors that a real weapon was destroyed. This has long been considered a problem for disarmament \u2014how can countries convince others that a nuclear weapon is gone without revealing details about its arsenal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Russian nuclear inspectors traveled to the U.S. in the early 2000s, they were not allowed to directly examine classified nuclear weapon components, Professor Alex Glaser said. Instead, the inspectors were shown a radiation detector\u2019s green light as confirmation that components were real. The Russians were not convinced, Glaser said, noting that one said the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}