One of the weird premises of Dune is the notion of scientific secrets. It’s really hard to keep scientific secrets. Once you know something is possible, if you have the resources of numerous planets for centuries, you can absolutely recreate anything ever invented.
Usually the limiting factor is resources.
Okay, now that I think about it’s one of the least weird assumptions. Just a dumb one.
But that’s just it, in the context of the Cold War there wasn’t much that either side invented that the other side couldn’t duplicate in a few years. Maybe not the exact same way, but we figured things out.
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