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Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech. Such measures may be unpopular at first. Here, the example of the Israeli air raid on the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor is illuminating...
Rather than try to detect one neutrino at a time, Reines and Cowan used a nuclear reactor that spewed out trillions of neutrinos every second. With so many particles, they reasoned, observed over a long enough period of time (it ended up being years), they should be able to measure at least a few neutrino impacts in their detector, a tank of chemical-tinged water...
...States Geological Survey has been forced to truncate a program dedicated to mapping the country's geological resources. Hydrogen fusion, the holy grail of energy-production technology, has been placed farther out of reach by cuts that will prevent the Princeton Plasma Physics laboratory from building a new experimental reactor. And funding for similar research ongoing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories is currently uncertain...
...Mururoa, La Rebaude's hands told Greenpeace stories, many of which shared the same moral: "The military lies. Corporations lie. We don't lie." Twilly Cannon, from Missoula, Montana, the boat's captain, endured months in 1990 stalking the Soviet navy as it prepared to ditch another spent nuclear reactor in the Kara Sea northeast of Murmansk. Michelle Sheather, an Australian, was on the Rainbow Warrior when the French blew it up, and had left the ship 15 minutes before the limpet mines went...
...secret the Russians failed to learn was that America's atomic cupboard was virtually bare at war's end. While the Soviets were gearing up their first reactor, the U.S. was shutting its own reactors down. "Everyone dropped their tools and went home when the whistle blew," said a disgruntled General Curtis LeMay, who was soon to head the U.S. Strategic Air Command, the force responsible for delivering the nation's nuclear weapons...