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Why not? What are you going to do with them? It requires nation-state level resources to even attempt to build them. Even states dedicated to developing them
by dublinben 7y ago
Why not? What are you going to do with them?
It requires nation-state level resources to even attempt to build them. Even states dedicated to developing them against the wishes of the international community (i.e. North Korea) have been barely successful.
- criddell 7y agoIt once required the smartest people utilizing resources from the wealthiest nations. 80 years later North Korea is making a pretty good effort. In another 80 years do you think it's unreasonable to think a wealthy individual might be able to build something? In other words, why would building an nuclear weapon not get easier?
- catalogia 7y ago> In another 80 years do you think it's unreasonable to think a wealthy individual might be able to build something? They'd not be able to do it without the weapons grade material. The matter of getting that stuff isn't really a secret, it's just pretty expensive, takes a lot of time, and will be noticed by intelligence agencies. I don't see why any of that would change. The list of suspects will be short; anybody trying to refine U-235 would need huge quantities of natural uranium and a warehouse full of precision centrifuges. And anybody trying to create Pu-239 would need a nuclear reactor.