> Quite frankly, controlled thermonuclear fusion is far more difficult than splitting an atom. Well, that's exactly the reason a Manhattan Project of Apollo Pr

> Quite frankly, controlled thermonuclear fusion is far more difficult than splitting an atom. Well, that's exactly the reason a Manhattan Project of Apollo Program style of push was inappropriate. Those two projects were fundamentally easy problems. By the time they were green-lighted, all their underlying physics was understood, and the only remaining challenges were engineering ones. In the case of fusion, that was not the case in 1991 (the year you picked) by any means.