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spicyramen | 4 years ago

The West normally lacks understanding what hard work, innovation and intelligence is a universal value. During my years at Stanford I had the opportunity to learn about the North Korea nuclear program and how the West never imagine the advancement they produced with very limited resources and without Russian help. Couple of professors visited the nuclear facilities as part of the UN investigation and were shocked with the intelligence, and innovation of Korean engineers. The rest is history and we have now a North Korea with nuclear capabilities

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DeathArrow|4 years ago

The know how is hardly a secret. Most countries can build a nuclear weapon provided they want to, they are let to do it and they have the raw materials.

But you are right, innovation is not a monopoly of the West.

During the Soviet times USSR had many technological advances, their population was quite literate in sciences, schools were very good and USSR had many teams winning math and physics Olympics.

Having great schools resulted in a large number of scientists and researchers.

The situation repeats with China. They invested a lot in scientific education and it is starting to pay off. Meanwhile, in the West, higher education means discussing politics and being woke.

mdp2021|4 years ago

While the core point holds, that scientific literacy pays off, more discrimination is required about the other side of liberal arts:

-- the full realm of human development should be cultivated, and

-- there is a crisis in some broad instances of higher education.

For example, with reference to the parent: you /should/ discuss politics: only, productively.

You do not want your society to be well trained in engineering but underdeveloped in other human qualities fundamental in civilization.

jacquesm|4 years ago

Just look at the incredible amount of knowledge around working Titanium that came from Russia, even to do things that the West had decided were impossible.

DSingularity|4 years ago

If you want a world where nations aren’t scrambling to acquire nuclear weapons, then maybe we ought to reign in a hegemonic superpower which has been invading and bombing countries since the end of WW2.

yholio|4 years ago

It's simpler than that, really: ban all nuclear weapons and bomb the shit out of anyone who attempts to create them.

This two-tired world, where the rich guys and their cronies have nuclear weapons, while the second grade countries must submit to their wishes, will clearly leave many nations wanting to balance the scale. History has shown that all countries with security problems develop nuclear weapons as soon as they get to a suficient wealth level.