Wow you are awfully happy about the end of the world.
Giving nanotechnology to humans, more specifically the damn chinese government, is absolutely suicidal.
I'll accept an apology for being short-sighted if you go donate some money to SIAI
Sigh. There's always people who want to hold back innovation...
I don't see who is 'giving' the technology in your second sentence, but if China discovered it, don't they deserve it as much as anyone? Why is specifically the 'damn chinese government' the evil empire now?
Good for China. The faster we get working nanotechnology, the better the defense will be when a nanotech problem comes up, and the better we all will be for the sheer amazing potential of nanotech.
I'm with James Halperin on this one: Develop 100% effective lie detector, and use that to license MNT. With the amount nanotechnology can help the world, it would make no sense to illegalize it. It's like illegalizing cloning or stem cell research. And all illegalizing it will do will mean that when the people who circumvent the international authority and develop assembling-dissasemblers to unleash on the world, barely anybody will know what to do about it. What would you rather have, thousands of the smartest nanotech experts working concurrently on ways to combat an encroaching nanotech plague, or a smoky room filled with a singular group of military experts on nanotechnology?
What is your definition of rogue nation? Any nation that isn't America or allied with America?