Re:The Software Revolution
by frandroid on Monday February 16, 2015 @01:24PM
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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.
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The 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.
They are easy from an 'intelligence required' perspective. They are difficult from a logistics perspective.
Relatively easy, i.e. compared to viruses.
Re:The Software Revolution
by packetized on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:15PM
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Stuxnet, for one. Also, the realization that having a nuclear weapon when you're Iran is a terribly bad idea, from a diplomatic standpoint.
Being 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.