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Obviously, China’s Ultimate Nightmare: Japan Armed With Nuclear Weapons
This being said, Japan should not build nuclear bomb. This is the only country has been almost destroyed by the bomb once. No need to use it on her even worst enemy, China, or north Korea. Japan should learn to love the neighbors even when the neighbors are not lovable. Peace is the answer.
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There are a lot of segments Japan has not entered but is fully capable of. Aviation is one them. I have no doubt they can build a jet liner on par with Boeing or Airbus. Nuclear is another. They could also have a great military industry as well. Those 9mm Toyota handguns would sell well.
Absolutely! HONDA recently received FAA certification of its business class jet that will be built in NC.
If its 1940s technology why can't the Iranians make one and why are so many countries struggling so many years with such great investment in money to make a bomb and they can't make one?
You have to separate the design and construction of a warhead from acquisition of the fissile materials. The Iranians could undoubtedly build a well-working warhead, but getting U-235 is a long, complex, energy-hungry and easily detected process. Getting plutonium in weapons quantities takes nuclear reactors - either ones custom-built for Pu production (easily detected as such) or dozens & dozens just producing Pu as an inconvenient byproduct - Japan's situation.
Putting a U-235 warhead together is easy - machine-shop easy. Putting a Pu warhead together is a good deal harder. Making either in a package that'll fit in a missile nosecone, now that's hard.
If you want to read about how to slap together a fission device on the cheap, I can recommend "The Curve of Binding Energy" - published in the 70s, but physics is physics.
If its 1940s technology why can't the Iranians make one and why are so many countries struggling so many years with such great investment in money to make a bomb and they can't make one?
Because its a combination of technology, and engineering that is hard to get right. If your country is willing to invest in the effort to make it occur, even countries like North Korea can do it. But even then....delivery is a issue, and getting it small enough to do so.
In order to deliver the basic version you need a large incredibly capable bomber. Or alternate means. Getting it onto a missile is a huge feat.
It would take them up to three to five years to develop, test, and deploy a viable nuclear weapons system.
And that's the thing. While it's certainly an effort to create a practical bomb, it's even more difficult to come up with a system to deploy it that your enemies can't counter.
dozens & dozens just producing Pu as an inconvenient byproduct - Japan's situation.
From my point of view the only thing that would delay a Japanese produce nuclear weapon would be the time it would take to produce enough weapons grade plutonium. As for the engineering side of the process, outside of Germany, I don't think that their is another country out there that could engineering anything their minds set out to engineer faster and better than the Japanese.
what imaginations are you talking about. Every technological development of major importance was created in the West. But then they have added on to our Western technological ideas and maybe perfected some of them
From my point of view the only thing that would delay a Japanese produce nuclear weapon would be the time it would take to produce enough weapons grade plutonium.
What they have - and they have 40 tons - is plenty good enough. Plutonium doesn't have to be enriched in the manner uranium does. Sure, it's preferable to have more Pu-239 and less Pu-240, but it's not critical.
Because its a combination of technology, and engineering that is hard to get right. If your country is willing to invest in the effort to make it occur, even countries like North Korea can do it. But even then....delivery is a issue, and getting it small enough to do so.
In order to deliver the basic version you need a large incredibly capable bomber. Or alternate means. Getting it onto a missile is a huge feat.
you don't think that the Japanese would have a missile system ready before they made a bomb? they must have a missile system ready right now that is ready to be loaded.
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could Japan make a nuclear bomb overnight?
