What I mean is that nuclear technology is more than 60 years old now, and I guess there is a pretty good understanding of how to build nuclear weapons, and how to make ballistic missiles. So what exactly stops countries from secretly developing them in remote facilities?
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Basically it’s relatively easy to make a nuclear bomb.
The main issue is money and logistics. Which are going to be very obvious.
Firstly you have to find plutonium and uranium which is pretty hard. But then you need a small army of nuclear experts and weapons guys to be able to do something with it (and set them up in expensive labs and stuff). And then they need the uranium or plutonium that is incredibly difficult to make and needs very high tech facilities to purify.
It’s also not enough just to make a nuclear bomb. You have to make it small enough to fit on like a rocket or something, otherwise what’s the point?
So then you need a rocket program which is also hella expensive and requires even more billions and more experts and more testing that is gonna be obvious.
So we’re talking about probably 10s if not 100s of billions over many years which is hard to hide. Not to mention very few countries have that amount of money to invest.
The main thing is that even of the technology is old, it’s still expensive. Think of computer processors for example. They’ve been around for decades, yet you still need multi billion foundries with tech that only 1-2 companies in the world have the know-how to make. It’s the same with nuclear stuff. There’s only a handful of companies that can even make reactors, let alone weapons. There’s likely a vanishingly small amount of people in the world who have the know how to run a nuclear bomb program.
So it’s not like you can just hire a guy that’s good with the nucular and give him some bootleg uranium in a basement.
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