Proliferation

There's an interesting bit of information about the Israeli nuclear programme that I wasn't aware of before in this story on nuclear proliferation:

France is believed to have supplied Israel secretly with a nuclear reactor and equipment for extracting weapons-grade plutonium from spent nuclear fuel in the 50s.

There's a lot of information on nuclear weapons and the countries that have, could or might develop them in the rather interesting (and sometimes rather terrifying) Nuclear Weapons FAQ and this PBS site shows just what the effects of a nuclear explosion would be on almost any location you want to select.