Sociotechnology: Nuclear weapons monitoring: The international community is desperately trying to devise schemes and systems to discourage proliferation. It could be an unending struggle

When Israel last month bombed an Iraqi atomic reactor, later contending that the facility could be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, the prospect of nuclear arms proliferation among nations that are not superpowers hit home hard. But the controversial Israeli action merely shifted the world's attention from one tense global theater to another.