Taiwan they have the skill money and motivation
Would have been smart for them to build nukes back when China was still weak.
Taiwan they have the skill money and motivation
I wonder if they were ever really that close. They are a low population country with a low scientific. technical base. Their main asset is being able to throw spare cash at the problem. I feel like if Iran hasn't done it in all this time, I'm skeptical if Libya could have pulled everything together.
If we had different leaders and policies, the Philippines could be a potential nuclear club member. Problem is, SE Asia is declared a nuclear free zone.
If we had nuclear weapons though, we could have stopped China from stealing more of the disputed Spratly Islands.
Merely posessing nuclear weapons is, I think, what @TheRomanSlayer was getting at. Toss in a stated willingness to use "all of them" at a moment's notice and the borders will not by challenged by any country which can't go "tit-for-tat"But using nuclear weapons over this is very risky since it could trigger an all-out nuclear war and it's not a battle for existential survival.
Merely posessing nuclear weapons is, I think, what @TheRomanSlayer was getting at. Toss in a stated willingness to use "all of them" at a moment's notice and the borders will not by challenged by any country which can't go "tit-for-tat"
Francoist Spain, Taiwan, Sweden and Brazil.
They were further ahead than Brazil, but I'm not sure they were 'fairly close' to having it.Not Argentina? They came fairly close to this before democracy was restored there in the 1980s, IIRC.
2.If Jelcyn was smart - he would let Belarus and Uraine keep nuclear weapons in exchange for never joining NATO.The same with Poland,Hungary and Czech republic.
Jelcyn in polish language.Trocky - my mistake.Is Jelcyn your attempt to spell Yeltsin? Does it work as a joke in a Slavic language like your your 'Sralin' thing does? (You also call Trotsky 'Trocky', does that work as a joke in Russian or Polish?)
Anyway, why would a nuclear Belarus and Ukraine with a no-NATO pledge be a better outcome, short-term or long-term, for Russia? And what keeps those countries honoring the no-NATO pledge forever?
Technically, we were looking for this capability in the 1970s, a dream of Gierek that clearly did not come true. And the chief scientist responsible for Poland's nuclear program (more accurately, nuclear fusion but let's not get hung up on the details) died in a car accident. Wonder why.Poland I suppose could seek nuclear weapons
ATP transcribed the name according to English phonetics but through a Polish transcription from Russian.'Trocky'