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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 22:51:05 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross I'm not so sure, because nuclear weapons are expensive. Part of the non-proliferation system is no one's sharing their tech, you need to build your own full stack. Poland has just had one shopping spree with conventional equipment, and now it needs to catch up with soldiers' training, personal equipment, morale and last but not least headcount.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 22:51:07 JST Charlie Stross

     Only nine? We've also got the USA, UK, France, China, and North Korea (who are also at war in Ukraine), but a whole bunch of other countries are probably scrambling for nuclear weapons and won't find it hard to make them: South Korea, Japan, Poland, maybe Germany and Italy, possibly Finland, Australia, and who knows who else.

     Remember, nuclear weapons are a 1940s technology. SLBMs are 1960s tech. Cruise missiles are 1980s. It's astonishing they're not more widespread.
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