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The same way they got ahold of nuclear weapons knowledge.
by SRSposter 10y ago
The same way they got ahold of nuclear weapons knowledge.
- ComodoHacker 10y agoPhysics was never forbidden. And they got much from Soviets.
- SRSposter 10y agoYou dont need hacker culture for electronic warfare
- noobermin 10y agoIf after decades, they are only now developing nukes barely as powerful as the earliest nuclear weapons (although still dangerous), one would wonder if their decades delayed IT know-how really can pull off such an attack.
- jasonwatkinspdx 10y agoThe situation is a bit more complex than that. We don't know the yield of NK's weapons based on the tests, because it's likely the tests have been sized to minimize material usage and just confirm the physics. Given that they're expanding their uranium mining it seems likely they have centrifuges operating and they're building hybrid bombs. This is the same path China went down when they were material limited. So anyhow, it's not like a footrace where the major nuclear powers are at the finish line and NK is trying to catch up. They're following their own path appropriate for the situation they're in.
- chucksmash 10y agoTwo things: - I don't think the chronological order in which we've developed technologies matches up with the difficulties of cloning/repurposing/using them. I wouldn't expect NK to be able to put a man on the moon prior to, say, being able to make a Facebook clone. - not everything is being invented from scratch. If individuals can smuggle data and devices in, do you doubt the military acting with the full resources of the country couldn't manage the same?