ABSTRACT
An important complicating factor in the proliferation of WMD is the behavior of supplier nations. There are two modern cases of nuclear proliferation where the United States remained silent and allowed proliferation to happen, Pakistan and Iraq. For sixty years Americans have been raised on the idea that America invented the atomic bomb and Germany never got close to having one. Japan's work on an atomic bomb was almost never brought up. Russia, it is alleged, got its atomic bomb because of spies in the Manhattan Project. Neither Germany nor Japan had a usable and deliverable atomic bomb at the end of World War II. The Russians did not have one ready either, although the American atomic monopoly would be remarkably short lived. Nearing the end of the war, there was a two-way, perhaps a three-way, race to get hold of Nazi and Japanese technology.
