Meant all the top talented people who emigrate or don’t return because of difficult economic factors at home. Top Western educated people coming back home is a positive thing for any economy.
From 2002 -2017 Turkey had a stellar rise in nominal GDP, thought as West Asian Tiger state.
Vibrant economy, young generation of well-educated workforce, stabile fiscal policy. As a upper-middle income country it had $12,615 GDP per capita at its peak in 2013. Only concerns were that it had to...
That‘s correct, but the build up of Pu-240 is inherent in civilian nuclear reactors. From Wiki:
„The minimization of the amount of Pu-240, as in weapons-grade plutonium (less than 7% Pu-240) is achieved by reprocessing the fuel after just 90 days of use. Such rapid fuel cycles are highly...
A liberal democratic nation like ROK with no trait of military aggression towards its direct neighbours has any right to arm itsself with nuclear weapons.
It‘s existence is daily threatened by an inhumane nuclear armed regime in the North, supported by 2 aggressive global atomic weapon states...
This is how U-238 typically becomes Plutonium-239 in commercial fission reactors. Than you only get simple reactor grade Pu-239 mixed with high amount of Pu-240. For weapon grade material you need 93% Pu-239. That affords special breeding reactors or a reprocessing plant.
Start building one of...
Interestingly a guy like Trump wouldn‘t interfere much when Japan and SK would go nuclear. „Uhm, it’s a wonderful thingy, when the allied yellow guys take care and pay for their own defence.“ Any liberal US administration would go ballistic instead.
During Trump‘s presidency Koreans convinced...
So far only Indian sources, not credible IMO.
From Jane‘s:
„While the UK led the Tempest effort, the GCAP programme will be a partnership of equals. BAE Systems is heading up development for the UK, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for Japan, and Leonardo for Italy.“
The Japanese would...
No one would inform others of their secretive nuclear programmes.
Japan could easily do it without getting detected in early stages:
Enough uranium for enrichment and hydrogen isotopes from civilian nuclear industry, getting weapons grade plutonium through existing spent fuel rods recycling...
It‘s not about technical capabilities. It‘s about getting enough uranium cake and setting up centrifuge farms with thousands of them in secret. And to obtain plutonium from heavy water reactors and breed or recycle it to weapons-grade status secretly as well.
All that without getting detected...
Since NK missiles can reach US homeland, no one believes that Washington would trade LA or San Francisco for Seoul. The nuclear umbrella has become full of holes.
Therefore 70% of South Korean population is for arming with nuclear weapons. SK will go nuclear in the next 2 decades IMO and Japan...
That‘s true. I‘m only reacting to members who post unfounded views, that building a nuclear bomb would be easy and a piece of uranium cake. It‘s not - even if you have technical knowledge.
It‘s nearly impossible nowadays to enrich Uranium with gas centrifuges (10.000 and more needed) and breed...
This is the same article from a Turkish source:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/turkey-to-eliminate-highly-enriched-uranium-64052
Nowadays it‘s even more difficult to illegally extract HEU from research reactors. Most of them used high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) of up to 20% in...
„However, to date, no evidence has come to light that Turkey possesses any form of uranium enrichment technology, including centrifuges. And while the International Atomic Energy Agency has raised concerns about other countries in the region, such as Iran, Israel, Iraq and Syria, it has not done...
There‘re many countries who could build a nuclear bomb. The hardest part is to highly enrich Uranium-235 (93,5%) and breed weapons-grade Plutonium-239. For a thermonuclear bomb you need also hydrogen isotopes like deuterium and tritium.
Nobody gets that critical material only through civilian...
Not an IT expert, then I stand corrected. But the rest would be enough to be protected before vatnik eyes? The Russians already had their hands on TB-2 hardware. It‘s not a strategic state secret, but the Russians would love to know how to cripple Turkish drones in Ukraine.
