How is this exactly supposed to work? When you are held up by a robber, do you fall prostrate on the ground and hope the robber will do the same?

The real solution to nuclear weapons lies in science. What science has wrought, science will destroy. The real end to nukes will only come with technology designed to neutralize it.

So, what can neutralize nukes? In the past, projects such as “Star Wars” focused on the delivery system. But that can easily be bypassed with development of some other delivery system (such as a well-shielded suitcase nuke).

What if we could target the radioactive elements, such as U-235 itself? Nuclear weapon, by design, consists of sub-critical pieces of radioactive elements. What if we could induce decay of these elements while they remain as sub-critical pieces? If we could do something like this by methods that work from long distance (I don’t know … maybe some kind of gamma ray or X-ray bombardment?), we could decimate the nuclear stockpile of other nations as we reduce our own. We can diffuse nuclear bombs that future terrorists may carry.

But then, I’m not a particle physicist, so maybe I’m just rambling and saying things that make absolutely no sense physically.