Consider whether any country has an exclusive right to knowledge and/or science. can a single nation or, for that matter, a small group of nations, stop scientific progress in other nations? on what moral and/or legal grounds can they inhibit or prohibit other countries from developing new technologies that can challenge their monopoly on these technologies? in short, shouldn’t all nations, no matter how rich or poor, have the same rights to technologically advance themselves? if not, why not?