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As the other commenter says - North Korea isn't connected to the internet in any meaningful way so it's impossible to cyber sabotage their gas centrifuges remot
by DrBazza 3y ago
As the other commenter says - North Korea isn't connected to the internet in any meaningful way so it's impossible to cyber sabotage their gas centrifuges remotely. Without the correct type of uranium, you can't build an a-bomb.
- amenghra 3y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet: "typically introduced to the target environment via an infected USB flash drive, thus crossing any air gap." IMHO being connected to the internet or not doesn't play a role here.
- bitexploder 3y agoIran’s air gapped computers for their centrifuges were hit. Stuxnet and its deployment remains one of the greatest hacks we know about. Kim Zetter wrote a good book about it.
- okanat 3y agoIran's centrifuges weren't connected either. However Stuxnet was indeed successful.
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- Qem 3y ago> Without the correct type of uranium, you can't build an a-bomb. Unless you have some plutonium.
- bumby 3y agoPu-239 comes from uranium. It’s not a naturally occurring element.
- Qem 3y agoBut then it sidesteps the need for a U235 enrichment process. One can start from the wrong type of uranium. The downside is you can't use the simple gun-type assembly for the warhead. You must be able to assemble a tricky implosion-type device.
- bumby 3y agoBut doesn’t it just then mean you have to enrich deuterium? At some point you’re still needing a massive industrialized process, you just have to pick your position, no?
- Qem 3y agoGraphite also works. The first ever man-made nuclear reactor used natural uranium with graphite as moderator. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
- bumby 3y agoI’m aware of CP-1, but has graphite been used in conjunction with any reactors using natural uranium as fuel?