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Do you think there's a path for ..say.. a competent engineer from a small country to obtain such a starter kit and jumpstart a weapons program?

I'd guess all the information would already be available on the internet, but is there competitive advantage here?

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No I don't think it'd help that much with a weapons program. The starter kit would be mostly focused on QA, compliance, configuration management, cost modeling, etc. and would not include any non-public information about like how to optimize a core for high-quality plutonium or U-233 production or how to do the chemistry needed to separate plutonium from other actinides and fission products. And of course it would say nothing at all about weapon design. That said, vast quantities of normal core design knowledge are widely available.

Well hopefully the starter kit doesn't include a few kilograms of weapons grade plutonium.

damn there goes my nuclear program.

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