text: what is the best way to completely eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear energy? if you were a leader of a country and wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons and energy, what would be a few of your first priorities on your to do list? first priority: wisedom in the leadership of usa, uk, france ,germany and russia about war and armament, far far greater than what we have now.  wisdom of the churchill/roosevelt or reagan/thatcher level or above.  you need to pick a recipient who will take all the nuclear arms, oh, say, the queen of england.  pick the wrong recipient and this whole idea is a fiasco.  pick the wrong organization (like the un, a whorehouse for the world's remaining dictators and despots) and nothing good will happen, either.  you need to get her to agree and come up with a central location for them, like the isle of man in the irish sea.  then you need to get the governments of the world to agree to disarm and ship them there.  this will take 30 to 50 years.  the wise leader may have to threaten the last two or three holdouts, who will be dictators, in order to get them to cough up their nukes.  once they are all in one place, they can be placed on a destruction schedule by the wise leader who won't abuse them or use them to threaten others.  the destruction will take 10 to 20 years.  eliminate nuclear energy by coming up with something superbly more efficient and less expensive -- "research" is the answer to this question, and not the kind of political throw-away junk research the us department of energy has blown billions and billions on since it was stupidly founded by jerry ford 30 years ago.