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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by jasonhansel on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:44PM (#33977274)
Not really. IIRC the NIF needs to pretend that it's about nuclear weapons to secure DoE funding; they (like us) know that it's really about developing fusion as an energy source.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by jboy55 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:16PM (#33978243)
Or it needs to pretend its about fusion as an energy source, to mask its really about creating and maintaining a stockpile of h-bombs that could destroy every city on earth.
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