Nuclear latency

Takahama Nuclear Power Plant in Takahama, Japan, and Arak Nuclear Complex in Arak, Iran.

Nuclear latency or a nuclear threshold state is the condition of a country possessing all the technology, expertise and infrastructure needed to quickly develop nuclear weapons, without having actually yet done so.^[1] Japan is considered a "paranuclear" state, with complete technical prowess to develop a nuclear weapon quickly,^[2][3] and is sometimes called being 'one screwdriver's turn" from the bomb, as it is considered to have the materials and technical capacity to make a nuclear weapon at will.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Alongside Japan, Iran is also considered a nuclear threshold state,^{[10][11][12][13]} and has been desribed being "hop skip in a jump away" from developing nuclear weapons,^[14][15][16] with its advanced nuclear program capable of producing fissile material for a bomb in a matter of days if weaponized.^[17][18][19] Other most notable nuclear threshold states are Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia.^[20][21]