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Seems quite risky to have anything "rigged" for destruction. What I find way more believable is that Taiwanese military has exact coordinates of the critical parts of the plant for the artillery to hit it immediately when needed. Perhaps even plans how to properly rig it for demolition but I am always highly skeptical of anything being rigged with explosives on a normal basis, seems like such a high risk to take.

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I think such a system is not necessarily risky if the detonators are not installed. Installing the detonators at the last minute could be done more rapidly than moving/installing all the requisite explosives.

On the other hand, perhaps there are other ways to destroy a silicon fab than explosives?

Smoke bombs or similar in the clean rooms would probably be a good start

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