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If nukes are so easy, how come Iran, with all its oil wealth, is still not there? It remains a difficult state actor play.
by frandroid 12y ago
If nukes are so easy, how come Iran, with all its oil wealth, is still not there? It remains a difficult state actor play.
- mdemare 12y agoRelatively easy, i.e. compared to viruses.
- hueving 12y agoThey are easy from an 'intelligence required' perspective. They are difficult from a logistics perspective.
- bgentry 12y agoThe hard part is not in knowing how to construct the actual bomb. The hard part is enriching the requisite quantity of a fissile material. That's why the US and Israel went after Iran's enrichment facilities with Stuxnet.
- packetized 12y agoStuxnet, for one. Also, the realization that having a nuclear weapon when you're Iran is a terribly bad idea, from a diplomatic standpoint.
- jacquesm 12y agoBeing caught making one is a terribly bad idea. Having one (or more) would be an enormous plus from a diplomatic standpoint especially after a test, having them in undisclosed locations and too many to knock them all out in one strike is even better. Not that that's a world we should prefer to live in but history has shown that the quickest way to increase your diplomatic clout as a nation is to join the nuclear club.
- jacquesm 12y agoThe tech is (relatively) easy, it's getting that materials that is (fortunately) hard. But there is enough of it in enough places with imperfect oversight that it is a source of concern.