What is so difficult about developing nuclear weapons that makes some countries incapable of making them?
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A big part of it is the general threat from other nations. Nothing scares quite like nuclear weapons, and there’s very few reasons to make them today. What do you think the military of other countries might do on hearing news of a new country making nuclear weapons?
As for the actual production, it requires expertise and the right equipment to refine the radioactive materials and build your bombs. It’s not something to be taken lightly, since exposure to radiation and the risk of an accident (even one that doesn’t result in a BOOM) are highly dangerous.
And finally you got the delivery system. You need a way to actually get the bomb where you want it to blow up. Having a bomb sit on your own soil isn’t what you want to do with it. So you need some kind of missile system that can travel great distances and be aimed well enough. In 1945 the bombs dropped on Japan were delivered by planes that dropped them and then ran like hell. That’s not a great strategy, so you gotta do something better. And that requires some decent sophistication from your military.
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