Does anybody remember what a good idea prohibition was? And how's that drug war going? Let's see what was the basic idea again? Spend billions of dollars to reduce a product's use by - making it illegal to produce or posses, destroy the factories and fields used to make the product, and aggressively try to curtail the transport of said products across state and national borders.

Hasn't really worked has it?

So why the hell does Nicholas Kristof think this will work with nuclear weapon technology?

The Nuclear Shadow

First, it's paramount that we secure uranium and plutonium around the world.

A second step we must take is stopping other countries from joining the nuclear club

A third step is to prevent the smuggling of nuclear weapons into the U.S.

Sound familiar?

And this is supposed to work without using armed force as is/was used in alcohol/drug prohibition, on a worldwide scale as opposed to national, and without the benefit of any international organization that will be willing to declare nuclear technology illegal in the first place (none of whom have the power to arrest anyway).

If people want something badly enough and they have money, they can get it. And our enemies have a lot of money - some of it actually coming from the West which feels so badly about the living standards of the

In the old days, "you kill us and we'll kill you" used to work. When the enemy doesn't mind death, you have to kill them first. In this case the soft underbelly of our enemies are the nuclear scientists who work for them. Start killing them - now. I can bet you that fewer people will want to become nuclear scientists, thereby preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

Think that's cruel? How many people have been killed (accidentally or not) and imprisoned in the war on drugs?

You got a better idea?