[Poohbah]

OK, you have a choice of:

1. US companies getting business in this field, and we have some idea of what these countries are doing.

2. Foreign companies get business, and we have NO idea what these countries are doing.

3. The country develops the capability indigenously after reading about how to set up a Beowulf Cluster. (Oh, my, there's that First Amendment, it allows grievous security leaks, we must execute our traitorous researchers who dare publish scholarly papers!) They set up the cluster with older desktop machines that are perfectly legal for export, configured for Linux, an open source O/S available for download on the Internet. All we know is that they bought a bunch of desktop machines.

In all cases, we have exactly ZERO means of preventing these countries from purchasing computers with these capabilities.

So, given those realities...what do you propose to do about this problem?

[GOP_1900AD]

So you oppose the existing export controls?

[GOP_1900AD]

Do you think it was wrong for us to withhold technology from the Soviet Union? Do you favor the current embargo on Cuba, DPRK, Iran and Myanmar?