Word: thermonuclear
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...local service in foreign countries. For consumers, that's worth phoning home about. - By Mark Halper Southern France's Ray Of Hope Citizens in the southern French town of Cadarache will be paying close attention to talks in Washington this week aimed at choosing the site for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's biggest and most ambitious fusion-energy project. Wearing the E.U.'s colors, Cadarache is competing against a Japanese team to host a plant that will attempt to replicate the sun's own energy, fusing hydrogen into helium to exploit a limitless and clean source...
...that decision. The White House announced last January that the U.S. "will join ... an ambitious international research project to harness the promise of fusion energy, the same form of energy that powers the sun. America will join negotiations with Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and China to create the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). This will be the largest and most technologically sophisticated fusion experiment in the world." Actually, it's the same consortium to which the U.S. had been party in the 1990s and from which it then bailed...
...Department of Defense feel it isn’t enough for the U.N. to seek out those weapons scientists who they feel might be amenable to offers of defection—they think U.N. officials should actively demand that certain scientists come to America and spill the thermonuclear beans, whether scientists like it or not. In all but name, these scientists would be kidnapping victims...
...Picture, if you will, what Mr. Hussein could do with a weapon of thermonuclear capacity,” he told the audience, suggesting that a fully armed Iraq might resemble North Korea today...
...organization that holds conferences promoting dialogue between professional scientists and politicians. The group takes its name from the location of its first conference, held in 1957 in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, at which 22 eminent scientists gathered to discuss the threat posed by the advent of thermonuclear weapons. The conference in 1995 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...