The US would stop building and researching and every other country in the world would continue. But hey, a BAN on evil horrible weapons makes good soundbites for low information voters...

I had a problem with ATT once where they over-billed my cell phone, I'd call, 'explain' my situatiion, have the person on the other end of the line deny everything, explain again, finally get them to say yes, there does seem to be an error... Then when I'd ask to get the bill fixed they would all reply "We sent you a bill so you HAVE to pay it. It doesn't matter if it's correct or not." It took me about six times to get that bill corrected. I quit using ATT and switched to another company.

Not true, there will ALWAYS be a need for statistics. What will politicians do if they can't lie about numbers? What will happen to all the global warming research if they can't use statistics to lie?