A couple of years ago I was surprised to discover that Tom Lehrer was still alive. And apparently still is.
Ugh, there goes the neighborhood.
Mary, just close the Iron Curtain and come sit down. Columbo's on!
Nuclear weapons are horrendously complex, and require exotic, difficult to refine materials. I'm not surprised a lone nut hasn't been able to build one.
Now CRISPR derived viruses that make Covid look like the hiccups? That someone could probably do out of their garage. Kits are available online!
You couldn't engineer a custom virus in your garage. You absolutely could weaponize anthrax or produce an organophosphate nerve agent though with a pretty low bar of effort.
https://jag.journalagent.com/ejm/pdfs/EJM_9_1_13_16.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_ShinrikyoThat's it. You're all going on the list. List for you! List for you! And you, top of the list for you!
Please don't.
Shhh don't give ppl any ideas.
People were executed for sharing information that seems to be readily available on wikipedia today. However, it seems every well-funded group has and always will take equally long to produce nuclear weapons, even if they're in iran:
the pace of the Soviet program was set primarily by the amount of uranium that it could procure
