help Tech ladder for nuclear weapons

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Hello community. I would like to ask your help in creating a believable technology ladder for the development of nuclear weapons.

Since physics is far from my specialty, your help will be of great value. This is what I have so far.

For nuclear energy

Note: you are required to find a supplier in order to build nuclear weapons. This way you also need to cooperate, preventing lone-wolfs.

• reactor design
• nuclear materials supplier (not you)
• nuclear refinery
• nuclear energy
• nuclear-waste management (and all protests that come with it)

For long-range missiles

Note: the development of ICBM's is tied into having part of the space program ladder.

• flying bomb
  • autopilot
  • catapult test
  • prototype test
• strategic bomb
  • gyroscope autopilot
  • advanced weather tests
  • prototype test
• ballistic bomb
  • multi-stage flight
  • launch computer
  • prototype test
• ICBM
  • guidance system computer
  • prototype test
  • SSBN

See also the existing ladder for space exploration: http://www.europans.com/topic/4121-capabilities-of-the-space-agencies/

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Presumably, you'd also effectively need the "tech ladder" for submarines would also have to be followed for submarine-bourn ICBMs.

[Salvia]

Would Eurth have the same or at least some of the disarmament treaties signed IRL?  

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9 minutes ago, Sancti Imperii Catholico said:

Would Eurth have the same or at least some of the disarmament treaties signed IRL?  

Possibly not, although there probably aren't that many nuclear powers to begin with. It kind of comes back to our lack of a Cold War analogue.