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Re:The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons by londons_explore on Saturday March 18, 2023 @02:09AM (#35206587)
Any determined nation could take that.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if someone hasn't already taken it, and left a dummy weapon in its place.

Sure, deep sea exploration by humans is hard... But using unmanned craft, they're mostly impervious to pressure.

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Re:The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons by devoutsalsa on Saturday March 18, 2023 @02:53AM (#35206790)
Why bother? You could get uranium much more easily from other sources.
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Re:The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons by londons_explore on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:29AM (#35207313)
It's already enriched and comes with a working design.

For a non-nuclear nation, that would be all they'd need to become a nuclear nation.

Then blow it up in a test explosion to show the world, and then they could work slowly on making another bomb while bluffing that they have lots ready to go.

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Re:The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons by jl6 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @05:02AM (#35207453)
They could be nice honeypot locations for the US to continuously monitor, to see who turns up with robotic submersibles. An early warning system for identifying actors with nuclear aspirations.
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