Alex WellersteinVerified account

No nation will honor patent on mass destruction weapon. To patent is insane.

The point is domestic control and control over scientists that worked for the project.

Yes, up to a certain point. Not the bomb itself. That's senseless.

It's not senseless. Again, it's about consolidating control. If you want to say something is senseless, blame IP law! OSRD took it seriously

To say that the bomb doesn't need to be cared for by IP procedures means saying it is going to be considered different every other tech;

...which *Congress* was able and willing to do! But federal government can't do that on its own, during a secret project.

Atomic Energy Act of 1946 bans patenting of nuclear weapons in US — it is the *only* category of working tech treated that way!

Which shows the lengths you have to go if you want to make the bomb fall "outside the law" (i.e., you have to change the law).