Not that impressive if you consider population and vast, really vast amounts of land that have gigantic natural resources and lack of any real power blocking th

Not that impressive if you consider population and vast, really vast amounts of land that have gigantic natural resources and lack of any real power blocking them from the east. Basically with that base anyone could do it (I don't dispute that having a gun pointed at your and your family head wasn't mobilizing for scientists, but that's normal for authoritarian states).