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The Surprises Are Coming
In this dialogue, Amory and Hunter Lovins articulate the importance of accounting for the often neglected but unavoidable occurance of surprise disruptions in energy and…
Peddling Nuclear Power: An Explosive U.S. Policy
This piece, originally published in The Los Angeles Times, addresses the nuclear nonproliferation policy of the Reagan administration. The authors argue that the policy had…
Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs
In this influential paper from Foreign Affairs, the authors argue that the nuclear proliferation problem is insoluble. At the time, all policies to control proliferation…
Nuclear Weapons and Power-Reactor Plutonium
This article, originally published in Nature in 1980, seeks to provide a discreet, selective, but adequate physical basis for understanding the scope for using reactor-grade…
Thorium Cycles and Proliferation: Response
This article by A. De Volpi responds to an earlier piece by Amory Lovins in which Lovins condemns the use of thorium cycles. De Volpi…