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Tom

I don't think that nuclear poliferation was ever stopable. We might like to think that we could have stopped its spread but like anything else, once a certain critical mass of people have the info it's bound to get leaked.

I think that the only way to deal with the problem is a two-pronged approach. First, in the grand tradition of the Cold War, make sure that all entities with lots of expensive physical stuff to lose (i.e., countries, even poor ones) that attacking the US with nuclear weapons will result in the complete destruction of the offending country. Second, we must destroy the current batch of Terrorists and do all we can to prevent the next batch from developing.

None of this is meant to imply that we shouldn't try to stem the flow of nuclear material and info whenever possible, but the fact is that the genie has been out for so long that we've forgotten where we even left the dang bottle. Not a pretty picture, but it's reality.

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