Scenario: a well-trafficked webpage is hacked and replaced with a page detailing the exact process for nuclear enrichment. The page remains accessible for several hours before the US government realizes what is happening. By the time they take it down, it is far too late.
What happens as a result of this? You can safely assume that every government on Earth has the information, and that it has been passed onto the deep web and recorded by millions of independent observers.
The Taliban used to have fighter jets. ISIS took over an area the size of Syria. I'm sure some groups will have the resources.
Really? I thought the whole Iran scare was about them figuring out how to enrich uranium.
Roughly everybody and their mom knows how to build nukes.
The point is that it is kinda hard to do ressource-wise.
Uranium bombs are really easy. But consider this: The US literally shipped the treasury to Oakridge.
Copper was a kriegswichtiges* material, so they shipped over the plurality of humankind's reserves in silver to have it melted down into wiring to be wrapped into a whole bunch of electro-magnets the size of a house.
Otoh Isis were a bunch of flea-ridden scavangers. They couldn't build, like, a road, with like asphalt, if they tried. And you want to see them handle loads of fine instruments and a few dozen tons of copper?
What? Is this SNL?
Anyway, i suppose your question can be interpreted as: "Can a mad billionaire have his minions try to make the bomb."
Yeah, if they're rich enough they can. It's largely a very rich man's variant of suicide by cop.
You can "hide" such a site all the way you want. It's still gonna radiate like a Christmas tree on crack.You're telling me they couldn't disguise the nuke production center as something innocuous in a sparsely populated corner of the country?
I think we can safely trust that US intelligence agencies are not a dumb teenage girl with a cell phone...
(Edit: Ok, admittedly i am having second thoughts regarding this assumption. None the less i hope you still see my point.)
'dis the tl;dr version.The biggest hurdle is hardware, not knowledge.
Oh, if anything i would be less concerned about climate change with nukes around.Nukes are one of the reasons climate change scares me
I mean heck, all we got to do is change the albedo of the planet.
We have plenty of stupid mountains nobody would miss. We have the explosive capacity.
I've heard you have just the right President for this thing...
*Wow, out of, like, eight major translation sites, one, bloody one, manages to not horribly mess this up.
Yeah, the ai takeover is imminent the self-driving pieces of junk will be able to see trucks (and bloody mountains) any minute now.
Stupid screwed-up iphone-degenerate generation.
Get off my lawn!
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