Reply To: Proliferation?

[Lerner]

Absolutely! With the transition to fusion, no one will need uranium at all, which will make the production of atomic weapons more and more difficult.

You raise a good point too, that during the transition to fusion, there would have to be substantial aid from the industrialized countries to developing countries, including the oil producers, to aid the transition. One step could be writing off the international debt. Much of it will be totally unpayable if oil prices drop anyway. Another big source of money could be stopping the production of arms, a huge portion of which flows to the Middle East in one form or another.

The money from arms production, international debt and high oil prices has overwhelmingly benefited an extremly small number of hugely rich people, with only the dregs flowing to the people of oil-rich countries. With sufficient political will, the burden of undoing the petroleum-arms-debt economy could be borne exclusively by those same few ultra-rich.