And we see where nuclear non proliferation first went awry. Not absolute. Not even consistent. Depends on circumstances and all that. Just one little problem-Non proliferation is a life or death issue for millions of people. At risk of angering some of my jewish friends I must admit this is where the world first failed to make non proliferation stick. This is where it first became far more problematic to insist.

Moving forward nothing less than universal inspection regimes has any moral authority. Nothing less than surprise inspections and monitors will be effective. The US should start this with inspections of our nuclear weapon manufacturing and storage facilities. We did it for the Soviets we can do it for the IAEA.