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Reducing Vulnerability: The Energy Jugular
This chapter of the book, Nuclear Arms: Ethics, Strategy, Politics, details America’s energy security vulnerability. America’s energy system contains multiple causes of energy insecurity: complexity…
Real Security
This article is a summary of Amory and Hunter Lovins’ book, Brittle Power. The book argues that energy policy creates enormous security risks, primarily through…
The Fragility of Domestic Energy
In this classic article from 1983, Amory Lovins questions the reliability of America’s domestic energy supply. Domestic energy sources seem to be the answer to…
Brittle Power
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security, prepared for the Pentagon in 1981, was the first and remains the definitive unclassified treatise on the vulnerability…
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security
In this classic from 1982, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins argue that domestic energy infrastructure is vulnerable to disruption, by accident or malice, often…
