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Plutonium is a solid at room temperatures

You have to heat plutonium very hot to vaporize it. Exposed to the environment, it wouldn't remain a vapor for long. If it vaporized in or above the stratosphere (which is the most likely case), then little of the plutonium would make it to the ground. Even then, it beats the hell out of letting the warhead detonate.

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