Nuclear fusion as a source of electricity always seems to be just around the corner. As the old joke goes, “Thirty years ago, fusion was 30 years away from becoming a viable commercial reality”—a ...
Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...
It’s fair to say that Bob Rosner, the former chair of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, is something of a skeptic when it comes to the more optimistic claims about fusion becoming a ...