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0 pointslooofooo010mo ago0 comments

Lets face it deploying nuclear around the world will add other mayor headaches like nuclear profileration.

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What nuclear proliferation?

How many nuclear electricity states are there? 30

How many nuclear weapons states are there? 9

What headaches are those nine nuclear capable states providing, exactly?

How has the world been made worse by having nine nuclear capable states? Practically, not just hypothetical anxieties about an unrealised future.

mmooss10mo ago

> hypothetical anxieties about an unrealised future.

Preventing nuclear war is just 'hypothetical anxieties'? We should wait for a war to happen and then do something? That's not persuasive.

natmaka10mo ago

Because, for now, those non-nuclear-capable states weren't interested in becoming nuclear-capable. On a standard PWR (the most common type of civilian industrial reactor) cooking military-grade plutonium is easy: charge it, let it start ('diverge') and then run, all as usual, then shut it down early.

EasyMark10mo ago

Right now two of them are ready to go to war, and potentially nuclear war if one starts losing over a relatively small strip of land.

looofooo0OP10mo ago

Ok, how many are democracies of those 21 without nukes or have or had a defense alliance with a country with nukes?

pjc5010mo ago

Let's ask people what the correct number of nuclear plants that should be built to decarbonize Iran is.

SoftTalker10mo ago

That's happening anyway.

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