Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Lost Prestige of Nuclear Physics

www.thenewatlantis.com/publicati…

For better or worse, the United States has come to depend on technological progress, and if its continuance as a society in anything resembling its traditional forms is to be assured, technological vitality must be sustained. Nuclear science is so central to the continuum of scientific and technological progress that a failure to restore its stature must bode ill for the long-term future of science and technology in America.

(via Instapaper)