• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    We have a good chunk of the technology. We should eventually build our own. After all, India built their nuclear weapons from Canadian tech.

    On May 18, 1974, India shocked the world by conducting a test A-Bomb explosion it called 'Smiling Buddha. ’ The nuclear explosive was plutonium, obtained from a ‘peaceful’ research reactor – a gift from the Canadian government in 1956.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, but proliferation is bad, basically. The more nations have nukes the harder it is to not use them.

      That being said, we already have the CANDU reactors in Ontario churning out plutonium that we just bury. I’ve heard it estimated we could have bombs in like 3 months if we wanted.