• ultranaut@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    There’s established rules about operating your nuclear program that says don’t use it for producing nuclear weapons, only for nuclear energy or scientific research. If you start doing things like enrich uranium for weapons the existing nuclear powers don’t like it. The US finds this a useful mechanism for achieving foreign policy goals.