We fight the war on non-proliferation much like we fight the war on drugs and the war on terror: stupidly. If we were truly concerned (which we aren't) about these "threats", the best approach, in my opinion, would be to worry less about these things (because they are inevitable) and focus more on the motives for the threats, and do something about those.
When the first atomic bombs were being built, we didn't even have calculators. We built the bombs with pencil and paper... how we plan on keeping this rather simple information out of our enemies' hands is beyond me. In fact, while we were working on the bomb, there was another invention that we saw as infinitely more important: the jet engine.
Again... if we took it seriously, we'd be looking at all these problems from a different angle, and if we took it even more seriously, we'd realize they weren't actually problems at all.
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We fight the war on non-proliferation much like we fight the war on drugs and the war on terror: stupidly. If we were truly concerned (which we aren't) about these "threats", the best approach, in my opinion, would be to worry less about these things (because they are inevitable) and focus more on the motives for the threats, and do something about those.
When the first atomic bombs were being built, we didn't even have calculators. We built the bombs with pencil and paper... how we plan on keeping this rather simple information out of our enemies' hands is beyond me. In fact, while we were working on the bomb, there was another invention that we saw as infinitely more important: the jet engine.
Again... if we took it seriously, we'd be looking at all these problems from a different angle, and if we took it even more seriously, we'd realize they weren't actually problems at all.