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Nuclear weapons aren't all that complicated, it's the enrichment that is hard. It's a large scale industrial process that requires a well equiped specialized fa
by willcipriano 5y ago
Nuclear weapons aren't all that complicated, it's the enrichment that is hard. It's a large scale industrial process that requires a well equiped specialized facility. We can detect these activities from space, that's how big we are talking.
You can get a rough idea of what is needed from Wikipedia. They are simpler machines than a automobile engine, at least in the sense that there are fewer parts involved.
- dhimes 5y agoIt's kind of a tough trick to get them to detonate properly.
- willcipriano 5y agoA analogy, you can probably find full schematics of a Tesla, or close to it, but that isn't the problem. The car factory is the problem. How do you get one of those? If you have the resources to obtain one, you also have the resources to hire engineers to design a car for you.
- BTCOG 5y agoYes, and you can legally and readily get all the information for all steps of the manufacture. As far as encryptions and data go I just echo that "not your drive, not your data" remains true and that encryption is not going to stop a cloud provider from deleting your encrypted content. Feels like I've been saying this for 10 years now (I have) but I truly do not believe cloud use is the future for computing. Drives and mass storage are always getting cheaper.