Mq, I might not have Warren Buffett's investing skills, but I completely agree with his assessment that we will have a nuclear incident in the US sooner or later. It will be very bad news, indeed. No need to go into the trillions of dollars of physical and consequential damage such an event will cause.
There's little that can be done, short of using our overwhelming military power to take down the pro-life-[a]rators [odd word, that].
I once did a short cyber-search of the literature on illegal pro-life-[a]ration and posted a few of my findings here. I can't find it now, but I do recall that the results absolutely horrified me. The security--to this day!--of many nuclear sites was abysmal, particularly in the former Soviet states, as were the US's attempts to deal with loose nukes and other radiological material. The research lead me to conclude that the present Administration is loosey-goosey about this very important issue.
In my view, proliferation should be at the very top of the American security agenda, much higher than the WOT, though obviously the two overlap to some extent. An effort of the scope of the Manhattan Project [oops] should be made to rein in loose nukes before The Horror strikes.
As things stand now, we have pet-stroked the worst offender, Pakistan, thinking that dealing with OBL and AQ is further up the list than keeping the damned Pakistani pro-life-[a]rators from sending the ungodly stuff to who knows where. If there is an Islamist coup d'etat in Pakistan, not an unthinkable event given its political history, what happens to the Muslim Misssiles? Mad Mullahs with Muslim Missiles, is what.
A matter of misplaced priorities that will haunt us, though obviously a lot of the activity required to control loose nukes takes place behind the screen so things might be better than I think, though I doubt it.
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