The Bomb People

It seems ironic that the nation that dropped the atom bombs is now the nation so adamantly trying to contain its destructive capabilities.

this video broke it down nicely for me. good editing too.

I watched this on Current TV and decided to refresh my memory by watching it again online.
Vanguard Staff? Time and time again, you restore my faith in the future of quality journalism.

I think the old check and balance of the majority of the countries in the world has become obsolete in this modern day where the materials and even more importantly I think industrial means to make nuclear material is so widespread. Seems to me that we as a world need a new treaty one in which all the country's of the world agree to oversight of all nuclear technologies by a properly staffed organization like the IAEA and perhaps even a dismantling of the weapons currently possessed by the US and other nations. I understand that we cannot put the genie back in the bottle here but we can stop weakening the effort to bind us all into a mutual agreement over the control of WMDs by not suggest that there are non-state persons. If there is a person or group of persons in a country and they commit murder or destruction on another country then depending on that country's level of involvement or their level of neglect to prevent will make that country responsible for the damages to the other country. Its as simple as that and suddenly we have world wide checks and balances again. On the one hand we have the treaty wide organization monitoring and inspecting member nations for violations. In the other hand we have a system by which we can hold accountable countries who fail to keep up a proper amount of vigilance in their own back yards and there by encouraging good policing of ones country.

Strong journalism! Thanks to Adam and the whole team involved for doing this work, please keep it coming!

Regarding the content. It's hard to predict the future but at least some of our leadership is thinking far enough ahead to try to prevent disaster caused by nuclear proliferation.

Let's hope that some hard-working scientists out there find a way to solve our energy crisis before it's too late.

Very nice report but I wish there was more about how the nuclear states are encouraging "rouge" states to try to obtain nuclear weapons themselves by not practicing the principles they preach and breaking numerous treaties. Both the US and Russia have reversed the sentiments of the 90's and are spending lots of money towards growing their arsenal, despite already having well enough nukes to blow up virtually every spot on the planet. And don't even get me started with Tony Blair...