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Energy, Economics, and Climate
In this editorial, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins challenge the assumption of ever-increasing carbon dioxide via unchecked fossil fuel combustion. They identify the performance of…
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…
