An op-ed by a starry-eyed one-worlder in USA Today says the best way to deal with the threat of nuclear proliferation is to immediately disarm ourselves, then depend on the good will of the rest of the world to prevent Armageddon: Get rid of all nuclear arms. And the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of Egypt’s nuclear program, agrees.

Perhaps the fathers of our own atom bomb - Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues from the Manhattan Project - were correct in believing that the only real way of dealing with nuclear proliferation is to ban nuclear weapons altogether. Everywhere.

International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei understands this reality. He recently wrote: “We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.”