QuestionerWhat are your thoughts on preventing further nuclear proliferation, given recent events in Syria, Iran, North Korea, and other countries? Thank you.
WarrenWell, it's the great problem of mankind, along with proliferation or the spread of other weapons of mass destruction in the chemical and biological field. The genie is out of a bottle on nuclear knowledge, and more and more people are going to know how to do enormous damage to the world. the rest of the human race, as the years go by, you'll have a given percentage of the population that are psychotics or megalomaniacs or religious fanatics or whatever, and will wish ill on their neighbors. For a long time, if you were a psychotic or something, you could pick up a stone and throw it up the guy in the next cave, and you moved on to bows and arrows and rifles and cannon. But for millennia, the ability to inflict massie. damage was quite limited, no matter how crazy you were. We live in a world where exponentially, as experienced, exponential growth in the ability to inflict harm on somebody else. And we haven't gotten rid of the nuts or the people who want to do it. And it is, whether it's, you know, Iran or you name it, or whether it's terrorist organizations or whatever, you know, we live in a very, very, very, very dangerous world on that that is getting more dangerous as we go along. Thank you.