It should be noted that this number is the level of Russia and the United States, which have, according to the estimates of competent experts, 70 of them, respectively, while France has 300, China – 270, North Korea, according to various estimates, from 10 to 60. For several years, Japan hid this from both its allies in the United States and from other countries. Thus, according to the Chinese Internet portal Sohu, Tokyo has a stock of already processed nuclear raw materials for 6,000 nuclear devices (!). What concerns us here are the following statements: Who Can Make an Atom Bomb Faster? Iran or Japan? (thank you!) the argument is made that Japan is precisely such a power - and China knows it (and if China knows it, everyone else does too): This implies one final idea: the turn-key nuclear and thermo-nuclear nation would have to be competent enough in nuclear engineering not to have to test its assembled weapons. Such a nation would, in effect, manufacture all the components for a nuclear and thermo-nuclear arsenal, and be able to assemble bombs very quickly, and wed them - again very quickly - to delivery systems. In the case of a therm0-nuclear turn-key power, additionally this means the ability to use any fission weapons it might produce as the necessary "fuses" for fusion (hydrogen) bombs, which implies expertise in thermo-nuclear plasma. is a carefully argued case making the same point, which we'll get to in a moment.īut what do I mean by a "turn-key" nuclear and thermo-nuclear power? Essentially, a turn-key nuclear power is (1) a nation that has closed the nuclear fuel cycle, (2) has the means to enrich uranium, or to create plutonium, to weapons grade, and to metallicize the results (in the case of uranium), (3) to store the results in the form of ready-to-hand cores for a fission bomb, (4) to engineer the other parts of the weapon and to store those for ready assembly, and (5) possesses the infrastructure and means of delivery of such weapons. I've been arguing for some time that Asia's other economic powerhouse, Japan, is a turn-key nuclear power, and in my estimation, probably a turn-key thermo-nuclear power.
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