We're already entering into runaway proliferation.
Pakistan and India are our allies, but I don't see them keeping a stranglehold on the tech. Iran will have them. The Saudis will probably have them soon.
If a dysfunctional nation like North Korea can have nukes, what's stopping the rest of the world?
We're not even preventing ICBM capability from spreading!
What gives? This is way more of a nightmare scenario than climate change and nobody is batting an eye.
> This is way more of a nightmare scenario than climate change and nobody is batting an eye.
there is a probability that an irrational leader orders a nuclear attack and somebody executes it instead of deserting.
climate change is a certainty at this point and the only question is how bad will it be. for people living by the sea and in the parts of the tropics displacement in a single lifetime is next to certain.
The tech is 75 years old. One suspects a sufficiently-funded team of recent PhDs could build the entire infrastructure from scratch in less than a decade. The methods we've attempted to stem proliferation haven't worked. Trying them again, except harder this time, won't work either. We all know this, but few of us have the imagination to consider other options.
