> Since the early 1950s, every major government in the > Western Hemisphere, Asia, the Middle East and Europe has > been drawn to atomic power’s allure only to have market > realities prevent most of their nuclear investment plans > from being fully realized.
This quote is from Henry D Sokolsky, in the first chapter of a book edited by him: *Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing its Costs and Risks* published in December 2010 by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, freely downloadable at http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubid=1041 Sokolsky, the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center http://npolicy.org after working for a long time for the Defense Department, continues his arguments as follows: it is a good thing that nuclear power proved to be so expensive, because "large civilian nuclear energy programs can -- and have -- brought states quite a way towards developing nuclear weapons." If nuclear power were cheaper, we would have an intractable problem of nuclear weapons proliferation, which together with the evolving international crises will create a high likelihood of deployment of nuclear weapons in the next 20 years. His policy proposal is to stop subsidizing nuclear weapons. (He gave a talk yesterday at the U of U). Hans _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
