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To be globally competitive in the long run, ITAR restrictions around space vehicles need to be reassessed. Right now to work for a US aerospace company you need to be a US citizen. This excludes a huge part of the available talent pool [1].

[1] http://paulgraham.com/95.html

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So true. It's very frustrating the way things are currently restricted. ITAR is really over-reaching in a lot of areas.

The same is true of our nuclear weapons industry. My father moved to the US from Iran and many of our family are interested in nuclear weapons engineering, but CANNOT come to the US to work to follow their passion because of these laws.

Why is it that only Americans have a right to participate in nuclear weapons engineering just because they happened to have been born in the "right" place?

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