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Funding for NIF is 100% about weapons, it's never been about energy. After '97 (when Clinton signed the CTBT and the US agreed to stop testing new weapons) the
by femto113 4y ago
Funding for NIF is 100% about weapons, it's never been about energy. After '97 (when Clinton signed the CTBT and the US agreed to stop testing new weapons) the national labs were in a panic until some clever DOE wonk invented the concept of "stockpile stewardship" and they went back to business more or less as usual.