Talk:Republic of China and weapons of mass destruction
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Can someone point out a source for this?
Taiwan probably possesses some amount of sarin.
The briefest of searches on the Internet will reveal a half dozen sources. Stargoat 19:54, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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- And I think that probably is too strong a word for what those sources indicate. Roadrunner 19:10, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This is incorrect...
- Taiwan probably does not possess any nuclear weapons, but certainly does have the technology to enriched uranium the plutonium or uranium necessary to construct such a device.
Taiwan does not have any indigenous capability to enrich uranium or produce plutonium. Now if you would argue that Taiwan has the technological level to develop a nuclear program, that's something quite different, and you need to rephrase.
Taiwan undoubtedly possesses the technology to enrich uranium, if not the capacity at present. It isn't that hard to do and they were looking into it during the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
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- I think there is a bit of confusion here. It is known that Taiwan had a program to produce plutonium through heavy water nuclear reactors, but as far as I know, Taiwan has never had a uranium enrichment program. As far as "possesses the technology" that needs to be phrased pretty carefully. Taiwan has the general technological level needed to built a bomb within a few years, but so does any reasonably developed area of the world. Taiwan *doesn't* have any of the specific technology needed to actively produces nukes (i.e. ultra-centrifuges).
Roadrunner 19:01, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I had previously written a more extensive discussion of the nuclear weapons program at Military_of_Taiwan#Nuclear_weapons_program. Should it be moved here? --Jiang 05:34, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
