Science & Tech Quote by Mordechai Vanunu

Vanunu’s clunky, breathless syntax is the point: it sounds like someone talking faster than his own caution can keep up. The repetition of “much more” and the vague pileup of “technology… computers… everything” reads less like a technical briefing than a moral alarm bell. He’s not trying to impress you with specifics; he’s trying to make the listener feel the slippery slope of capability. Once you accept that the other side is “more advanced,” the rest follows with grim inevitability: production gets “much more easier,” scale becomes “many more,” and the ultimate output is not progress but proliferation.

The intent is to puncture complacency about nuclear restraint by reframing it as an engineering problem. If the bottleneck is expertise and tooling, then advanced tech makes the unthinkable routine. “Computers” here isn’t about spreadsheets; it’s shorthand for the industrial modernity that turns bespoke weapons into a system: modeling, design iteration, logistics, manufacturing tolerances. The subtext is suspicion dressed as pragmatism: don’t count on ethics, treaties, or democratic oversight when the machinery of innovation is humming.

Context sharpens the edge. Vanunu is the Israeli nuclear technician-turned-whistleblower who exposed details of Israel’s nuclear program and paid for it with kidnapping, a closed trial, and years in prison. So when he talks about “they,” the pronoun is elastic on purpose: adversaries, states, the security establishment, anyone with resources. It’s a warning from someone who learned that secrecy doesn’t prevent weapons; it just prevents accountability.