Sure the research will continue, as any dictator with a tinfoil hat want's it.
But in many respects a nuclear devise is a white elephant: It needs a power industry, that can make or purchase the raw material, you need delivery systems, you need to guard the damned thing, so nobody steals it.
And what does it give you? Grief. The mere suspicion you got it makes you a paria internationally, so you can't import pestices for the fear you will produce chemical weapons. |
