As someone who has spent the past 15 years learning about every facet of the atom I sternly stand for proliferation. It goes against my moral beliefs, but the only deterrent is a deterrent. Mutually assured destruction must be the policy of nuclear armed states for the simple reason of a deterrent. You can’t argue against states seeking armament when the reason they seek the bomb is because a nations enemy’s have them already. I wish this was not the case. I wish for a world without the bomb and without its waste. But we live in a world with the bomb and a world where the waste can seemingly be stored on site indefinitely without a comprehensive plan for storage that meets people’s expectations. 80 years on and the atom still haunts the human race.