President Bush's expected declaration of an operational missiledefense capability is a historic achievement, but the threatremains. Congress should continue to improve existing missilesystems and interceptors; support the development and deployment ofsea-, land-, and space-based missile interceptors; and construct aworldwide command and control system that ties together all theU.S. missile defense capabilities.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, like many longstanding research and development institutions, traditionally has been a place where employees spent most of their careers until they retired. That s changing big time.
It has been a month since some members of the American Physical Society released their report casting doubt on the technical feasibility of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Since then, the evidence continues to $row that the scientific and technical quality of the APS report is seriously flawed. A number of prominent U.S. scientists, in fact, are beginning to ask why the authors rushed the report into print before they checked it thoroughly for errors. Dr. Frederick Seitz, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University and a former President of both the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences, observes: "I know of no precedent, in my 55-year association with the American Physical Society, for the issuance of so seriously flawed a document as this, under the aegis of that Council."
A new study claims that nuclear power is the key to a least-cost path to a zero-emissions world and that it could fill gaps created when the sun is not shining.
Nuclear power generation can play a crucial role in helping the world reach a key goal of zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century, especially in countries with low wind resources