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Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day agoBlaming capitalism for every evil in the world is just dumb. Surely Stalin and Mao started their nuclear programs because of capitalism?
sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
i wasn’t aware they redesigned nuclear from the ground up. why did they pick uranium then?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because they wanted bombs.
Zeta@futurology.today 1 day ago
Yup. Capitalism/fascism led to WW2 and the nuclear bombing of Japan, requiring the USSR and China to develop an equally powerful countermeasure.