Why is it so hard to replicate the bulding of a nuclear bomb and why only a small amount of countires have them?
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Its not that difficult. Even North Korea managed to do it. But first of all most country dont want nuclear weapons and even more so dont want other countries to get them and the best way to encourage not more countries to get them is to also stay out. Then there are international treaties that ban the development of nukes if you dont already have them. Another things is that you cant realy do it without other countries noticing that you are doing it and they will do a lot to stop you. In the case of Iran you can read about Stuxnet if you want to see how sabotage happend in reallife to stop Iran from devloping nuclear weapons.
So in short you have to very desperate to even think about it and then be fine with getting very isolated from the rest of the world. Engineering wise a lot of nations around the world can do it.
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