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> Mainstream nuclear power technology is easily repurposed to the manufacture of nuclear weapons. A corollary is that a world with no nuclear reactors is a worl
by gpm 4y ago
> Mainstream nuclear power technology is easily repurposed to the manufacture of nuclear weapons. A corollary is that a world with no nuclear reactors is a world incapable of making nuclear bombs
That doesn't follow, just because <X> is one way to do <Y> doesn't mean you can't do <Y> without doing <X>.
It also doesn't really hold up in the real world - we had nuclear weapons before we had nuclear power plants. Admittedly we do refer to some of the devices used to make the first nuclear bombs as "reactors" (though they produced no electricity).