proliferation is a real concern but this part is completely ill-founded > including many private entities (Elon Musk for sure but quite probably, many much sma

proliferation is a real concern but this part is completely ill-founded > including many private entities (Elon Musk for sure but quite probably, many much smaller ones, plus churches as well) Modern (that is since the end of the middle ages) State exists because they enforce the “monopoly of violence”, there's no way any private individual could be allowed to have nukes. Even in Russia, the realm of Oligarchs' PMCs (well before Prigojin assassination) the State always maintained full control on its nukes (and when Russia was a failed state at the beginning of the 90s, the US worked hard to make sure it was the case). Private entities with nukes could only happen in the event of a complete collapse of the US as a State, in which case nuclear proliferation would be the least of your problems (and even then, I don't see China not intervening to stop that from happening anyway, like the US did in Russia)