Pakistan will transfer nuclear weapons technology to Turkey

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[Nilgiri]

Turkey problem is not how to make it.. as we know, Turkey even have small nuclear reactor for reasearch since 20 years... the fossil fuel of it is important to have the going production, which i believe Turkey is waitin for Akkuyu. obviously Turkey can try to make couple for its security, but big numbers will come after that. Because, according to the contract there, used used nuclear fuels should stay in Turkey, which almost everywhere they take it. i just made it short with simple words but you can also find more info about it..

This is actually spot on. I will explain a bit below.

I believe the original Turkish says "nuclear technology transfer" and not transfer of missile technology.

If we go to original article (that is getting cherrypicking quotes elsewhere leading to massive conflation):

Turkey-Pakistan in top-level discussion over nuclear weapon program

Pakistan is rapidly transferring the missile technologies to Turkey and Pakistani scientists are helping Turkey build its capacity in the production of missiles.

zeenews.india.com

It conflates all kind of things ridiculously like:

Giving a jolt to nuclear non-proliferation, the nuclear black market of Pakistan led by Abdul Qadeer Khan helped numerous countries in sharing missile technologies, especially in the production of centrifuges.

They (author and whomever vetted/edited) honestly don't know what they're talking about, and its the reason this hasn't been picked up by any other media group.

It uses this "missile technology" thing all over the place where centrifuge tech would be what is nuclear component actually (and it just insinuates by "media reports" and "unnamed sources" and "insiders" there too on top of the conflation).

It is for all intents and purposes a garbage fluff piece.


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Furthermore, I would say Turkey has all it needs to go nuclear already, it would need the political will thats it.

It is unlikely it would want to be tied to same proliferation (AQ Khan and co.) that lead to Iran getting its centrifuge tech.

Turkey has one nuclear reactor complex under construction using VVER.

Turkey I believe has a large research complex too dating back to the late 50s.

Turkey is more than capable of doing 3 things if it chooses to already.

A) Use the VVER neutron economy (when it comes online few years down the road) to breed plutonium on a bed or ring geometry (depending on flux of reactor at its optimum regime).

B) Develop implosion reflector lens in interim. (It has achieved far harder technologies already)

C) Cold test everything else needed in interim. Neutron initiators, relevant fuses, control system and telemetry and so on.

The interim being time it takes A to produce enough weapon grade Pu.

This is far better process for Turkey if it removes IAEA safeguards and leaves NPT....something it would come to do by going U-235 gas centrifuge route anyway...as such things cannot be done discreetly like before given remote sensing in operation today. It would rationally not want to be linked to Pakistan proliferation if at all possible.

It was American earlier generation remote sensing (declassified later) that picked up lot of what Pakistan did in the 80s and 90s for example....w.r.t North Korea, Iran and Libya in about that order.

The Americans and Israelis have developed lot more on that since...as can be seen w.r.t Iran these days.

Why North Korea developed the bomb far faster than the latter 2 is very much linked to its A,B,C process internally it already did decades before with a Soviet reactor export (Yongbyon) for Pu route. It wanted gas centrifuge as well to hedge and add to it....unlike Iran and Libya which had no large neutron economy provider.