US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved

Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by bratbag on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:51AM (#33981979)

You are operating under the rather naive assumption that the people and resources used in fusion research are fungible with the people and resources used in other things.

When you have a bunch of people who know how to build nuclear bombs sitting around with nothing to do, you damn well keep them busy before another country finds them a job.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by eru on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:43AM (#33995720)

For further discussion, we'd need to be careful whose perspective we are taking and what timescales we are talking about.

You seem to be taking the perspective of individual countries? And not eg humanity.

And timescales of perhaps decades?

On longer timescales: people don't get born knowing how to build nuclear bombs. They are trained up.

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