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by khuey 1418 days ago
Atomic bombs are useful for blowing stuff up (which requires detonating them) or threatening to blow stuff up (which requires other people knowing you possess them). "Laundering" a bomb that remains unknown for 50 years doesn't seem that useful.
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At least one country sees value in being deliberately ambiguous about possessing nuclear weapons.
Unless it was taken apart by another state for research purposes…
Probably easier to get your hands on some engineering documents than an entire bomb.
Seems prima facie easy, but at least in the USA each part is certainly contained within a different special access program, and never the twain shall meet.