Nukes are probably some of the easiest things to make nowadays, you don't a whole Manhattan project from them nowadays with the advanced in machine tools. Jet engines fabrication end to end is actually now the hardest shit to pull off, and only the Americans and Europeans can do it right now with chinks only recently catching up.
The space thing is interesting I guess, but I put that down to their huge population and being able to gather enough resources and talent for this largely symbolic endeavour.
Turks are probably the smartest of those three groups, Persians are OK but also retarded with them shooting down their own plane in 2020 after sperging out or killing their own soldiers in a test fire of a missile when it tracked the boat towing the target instead of the target itself.
Malays are mega retards, totally corrupt and dumb, by far the dumbest group in Singapore and Singapore has literal pajeets.
Only reason Malaysia is viable is because of its elite ethnic Chinese business class.
What happens when you put a Malay in charge of anything important