1) What are the responsibilities of nations that posses nuclear weapons and technology?

That is two questions, one about nuclear weapons technology and the other about peaceful nuclear technology. Nuclear technology includes nuclear medicine (research, diagnosis, and treatment along with production of radioisotopes for all medical uses); industrial processing (e.g. irradiation treatment of hundreds or thousands of everyday products, neutron radiography of aircraft, gamma-ray inspection of bridges and pipelines, filling of soda bottles, measurement of the thickness of aluminum foil, and others--c.f. Dr. Alan Waltar's book America the Powerless - Facing Our Nuclear Energy Dilemma); and of course clean, affordable, reliable, environmental, safe and secure, and sustainable (CARESS) nuclear power (see my law journal essay "Atomic Time Machines" or Sen. Pete Domenici's book A Brighter Tomorrow). Every nation that possesses such technology is responsible for sharing it with and/or deploying it to every other nation in the world to improve the lot of humankind. As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes concluded recently while speaking to a large room full of nuclear scientists, engineers, and government and industry leaders: "I hope youll remind yourselves that the wholly honorable purpose of your enterprise is nothing less than the alleviation of human suffering." see A Century of Technology (you can find a couple of articles about me on the same website, or look for links on my websites below). Nuclear weapons technology is just the opposite: those who possess such technology are responsible for protecting it and impeding its spread and use. 2) In the future, do you think nuclear power will be used as a major energy contributor? Definitely, nuclear energy production will continue to expand, even in the U.S., but more so in other nations for now. A few new nuclear plants are under construction in the U.S., many in China and other countries, many more are planned, and 60 nations that have no nuclear plants have officially announced interest in possessing nuclear power plants. For a look at a massive current construction project in the U.S., see Nuclear Matinee: V.C. Summer Nuclear Construction Update. Russia is also building a fast metal-cooled breeder reactor, a floating commercial nuclear plant (we actually have more than a hundred, but the Navy owns them all), and China and India are working on thorium-fueled reactor technology (India has a lot of thorium). 3) Do you think every country will have access to nuclear power? 3) It's possible, but I can't project decades or centuries into the future. If some industry or nation would create a way to build, fuel, and operate reactors in/for other countries, any country could have nuclear power without having or creating a massive nuclear enterprise like we have. Nuclear construction, supply, maintenance, and fuel supply is international, but regulation and operation are not--yet. This would also require an international program or system for recycling used nuclear fuel and disposing of the wastes created.

I'd be happy to come speak to your class or your whole school about the environmental and other impacts of energy exploitation and use. I give public speeches from time to time and have also spoken at schools in Las Vegas such as the ATech Academy. A few years ago in Reno one gentleman in the audience was carrying a big picture of a threeeyed frog, but about half way through my presentation he got up to walk out. My host met him at the door and asked why he was leaving, and he replied, "He changed my mind." I might change a few at your school too.