He concludes:
It is therefore urgent that we collectively focus on the most effective means to counter the proliferation of nuclear weapons, including fully using the United States' relevant technical capabilities. Doing so will call more for intelligence and law enforcement--that is, for cooperative measures--than for traditional deterrence or military coercion. Partnering with nations around the world currently offers the most promising approach to the growing threat of nuclear arms.
Jeanloz chairs the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on International Security and Arms Control which recently published The United States Nuclear Weapons Program: The Role of the Reliable Replacement Warhead
Comment: It is hard to listen to a fat man tell starving people to go on a diet! So too, President Bush, it is hard for other countries to listen to the world's greatest military superpower, which is continuing to increase military spending and is considering the development and deployment of new nuclear weapon designs, tell them to contain their nuclear ambitions. Of course our first priority should be to keep rogue states and terrorists from getting access to nuclear (and other mass destruction) weapons. But we must not also attend to secondary priorities, high among which is to prevent general proliferation among the world's 268 nations. Limiting U.S. nuclear weaponry may be a major step in protecting our own safety as well as that of the rest of the world. JAD
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