Roski wrote:SO I have been reading up, So many countries could build nuclear weapons right now if they felt like it.
And North Korea has brought new means to tactical nuke, with the largest confirmed blast at 7kt.
Yeah but why would they have a reason to?
Designing a dedicated plutonium production plant is not a challenging undertaking and its significantly cheaper and easier to build then a full blown plant.
After you have the plutonium its only a matter of good engineering and expertise with explosives before a bomb is constructed or even a factory to produce said bombs.
it doesn't even need to be a country, a small well funded group with significant expertise could do it.