Weinberg: The First Nuclear Era ( continued )

It has been over two weeks since I started reading the book and I haven't finished it yet.

Why is it taking so long?  Not sure.  Perhaps because it is boring?

But there's fascinating stuff in it.  It is hard to explain why this isn't a page turner for me.  Yet it isn't a page turner, despite the content.

Actually, it is depressing in a way.  It is yet another example of the eroding character of the nation that this technology is stuck in the mire of irrational fears and is not progressing the way that it should.  I haven't gotten to that point yet, but somewhere in this book, Weinberg expresses his optimism that there will be another nuclear era in the future.

Perhaps, but if the trends hold up, it won't be in the West.  It will be in China and elsewhere in the East and Mideast.  America and the West will fall behind.

But what about the ITER?  The ITER project is part of the same sickness of the west.  Maybe it will work someday, but it will be hopelessly impractical and expensive, even if it does.

If better ideas than ITER exist, they'll never be implemented because it's too honest.  Unless there's some crooked business involved, nobody's interested.