A new theory on fusion. It's actually a government organized strategy to keep nuclear scientists/engineers occupied on a sisyphean task that can never be comple

A new theory on fusion. It's actually a government organized strategy to keep nuclear scientists/engineers occupied on a sisyphean task that can never be completed. If they're hard at work on fusion, they're not taking payments from foreign governments to work on weapons or subs. It's pretty great because the cause is so high minded and noble that it can attract all the engineers and it's very difficult so it attracts the brightest too (those suckers are smart). Indeed, it's so difficult that they (the government non-proliferation people) may never have to think up a new way to keep the nuclear scientists occupied. US did something similar in the 90s after the Cold War by hiring/importing all the Soviet scientists, after WWII by hiring/importing German engineers. If you're working for us, you're not working for them. At some point, maybe weapons engineers could start getting paid to just sit on their hands. Learn to make the bomb, get paid to not make it. Is fusion a brain sink designed for non-proliferation? It's a pretty effective non-proliferation tool with total US fusion research at less than $1B/yr. Compared to a trillion dollar war or 10s of billions in monitoring etc.