Monthly Archives: August 2011

Laser Enrichment of Uranium Could Lead to More Nuclear Weapons

New York Times reporter William Broad wrote an excellent piece on Sunday detailing concerns raised by APS and other scientists about the dangers posed by the laser enrichment of uranium. In a 2010 report, Technical Steps to Support Nuclear Downsizing, an APS Study Group found that smaller uranium enrichment technologies could represent proliferation game changers, […]

What a Deal!

In a battle of ideologies, the know-nothings won. And their victory combined with a partisan divide over taxes and entitlements virtually guarantees that we will know less, discover less and innovate less. Across-the-board spending cuts  — the budgetary equivalent of a butcher’s meat ax – loom for 2013, and absent a return to sanity among […]

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