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Nuclear power is vastly better in terms of emissions, so I'd argue that blowing up a plant or two is worth stopping global warming. But why target plants when a dirty bomb attack would be way easier and more effective?

Additionally, most countries don't have the resources to pull off something like Stuxnet, and the ones that do have much more to gain through corporate and government espionage.



There is some problem there though - peacefully using nuclear power creates plutonium, which could be later extracted.


Not if you use other processes. But those don't produce plutonium so they haven't been invested in enough.




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