The bank of centrifuges used to enrich uranium at the gas centrifugeenrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio. ('The Bomb,' Harper Collins )
From The International Herald Tribune:
In 1945, after the atomic destruction of two Japanese cities, J. Robert Oppenheimer expressed foreboding about the spread of nuclear arms.
"They are not too hard to make," he told his colleagues on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico. "They will be universal if people wish to make them universal."
That sensibility, born where the atomic bomb itself was born, grew into a theory of technological inevitability. Because the laws of physics are universal, the theory went, it was just a matter of time before other bright minds and determined states joined the club. A corollary was that trying to stop proliferation was quite difficult if not futile.
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My Comment: A book that should be read by all people interested in nuclear proliferation.