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WarmWash • yesterday at 4:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

There were no secrets of nuclear weapons. The gating factor is the ability to purify uranium.

If nuclear weapons were as easy to build as AI models are to run, we would have all been dead decades ago.


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josephg • yesterday at 5:52 PM

> There were no secrets of nuclear weapons.

There might have been. But the notes from the Manhattan project were leaked almost immediately to the russians by informants.