Re:Why Sweden abandoned its secret A-bomb project
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:41PM
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Side note: always appreciate (and look for) your comments in these threads.
Re:Why Sweden abandoned its secret A-bomb project
by alephnerd on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @07:19PM
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No prob! That means a lot coming from you!!!
That said, I sincerely hope my prediction is just paranoia and that I'm wrong.
It's UAE and Saudi's deal flow that got me worried recently. I'm seeing those guys everywhere in the defense tech space now, and if Saudi and UAE are stockpiling, then every other semi-competent regional power is as well.
Re:Why Sweden abandoned its secret A-bomb project
by freefrog334433 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:03AM
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Saudi Arabia might have had access to nuclear weapons for a while, as part of an arrangement with Pakistan.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24823846
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_and_weapons_of_ma...
Re:Why Sweden abandoned its secret A-bomb project
by alephnerd on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:18PM
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It's a gentleman's agreement before Imran Khan entered the political arena.
Imran Khan leaned pro-Qatar, which irked KSA, especially because IK turned down joining Saudi's coalition in Yemen.
It was around this time that KSA began charting it's own independent course, just like UAE.
In all honesty, it feels like everyone's arming for something big - from UAE all the way to the US and China, every country is in the process of buying startups and firms working on dual use technology.
Every country seems to have some sort of a 5-10 year roadmap to modernize defense technology and logistics by 2035, yet I never saw this level of concentrated effort globally after 1989.
[0] - https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/Japan-nuclear-resear...