The United States’ first full-scale hydrogen bomb was, in fact, a fission explosion that initiated a fusion reaction. since first tried out in that monstrous Marshall Islands explosion, fusion has been intended as a tool of war. And sadly, so it remains, Buried deep in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s website, the government comes clean about what these fusion experiments…
Is fusion really the energy of the future? Michael Fumento explores some of the many false starts in the development of controlled nuclear fusion and considers its current prospects, including inertial and magnetic confinement, inertial electrostatic confinement, and compact reactors.
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