Does nuclear energy contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons?

This position holds that civilian nuclear energy contributes to the spread of nuclear weapons. It argues that the same technologies — producing plutonium from spent reactor fuel, and enriching uranium — can give a state the materials and capability to build a nuclear bomb.

Nuclear weapons are incredibly difficult to make. The engineering needed to make nuclear weapons, combined with heavy regulation of nuclear material by oversight committees and other countries makes the proliferation of nuclear weapons extremely unlikely.