It's just ridiculously capital intensive. If the government throws money at it it happens. Some of the costs of a nuclear weapons program can be shared. This i

It's just ridiculously capital intensive. If the government throws money at it it happens. Some of the costs of a nuclear weapons program can be shared. This is probably partly why France invested heavily in it and why countries keen on it coincidentall almos always have nuclear arsenals. It's unlikely it's because they're secretly authoritarian.