How You Really Make the World Safer

In today's Post.

A Clinton-era project that got half a ton of highly-enriched uranium out of Kazakhstan and into the U.S.

Unlike the Iraq war, which has probably made us less safe than we were, CTR is a highly-effective--and extremely cost-effective--program. Had we spent a fraction of the Iraq war's $3 trillion price tag on CTR, we'd be living in a much safer world today. (Though, of course, single programs do reach a point of diminishing returns.)