Historical significance[edit]
Scholars such as David S. Painter, Melvyn Leffler, and James Carroll have questioned whether or not the Baruch Plan was a legitimate effort to achieve global cooperation on nuclear control.[2][9][10] The Baruch Plan is often cited as a pivotal moment in history in works promoting internationalizing nuclear power[11] or revisiting nuclear arms control.[12][6] In philosopher Nick Bostrom's 2014 work Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, he cited the Baruch Plan as part of an argument that a future power possessing superintelligence that obtained a sufficient strategic advantage would employ it to establish a benign 'singleton' or form of global unity.[13]:89