For those who live in a representative democracy like the USA, ultimately the actions of the government need to conform to the wishes of the voters. On a recen

For those who live in a representative democracy like the USA, ultimately the actions of the government need to conform to the wishes of the voters. On a recent trip to the Manhattan Project B Reactor, I was puzzled why there wasn’t a more substantial memorial to the victims in Nagasaki (last time I saw just one photograph of Hiroshima and none of Nagasaki, where the plutonium from the B reactor was used). After some research I learned that while historians felt a larger memorial was more appropriate, it was vehemently opposed by most Americans. Likewise perhaps an electoral majority of Americans are angry that their hard earned tax dollars were going towards maintaining the NASA Applied Sciences website which had no immediate benefit to the vast majority of them (except for perhaps a small group of technical professionals).