The project code named "Manhattan" started after Albert Einstein wrote a letter to FDR in 1939 urging America to develop the atomic bomb before Hitler did. It was so secret that when then Sen. Harry Truman was investigating government waste, he was never told the nature of this project - until he succeeded FDR as President.

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NASA's Plan to Return to the Moon

I'm concerned that returning to the moon may be little more than a redo of Project Apollo. The return needs to be with the intent of establishing a moon base. Why would we commit to a lunar outpost when we are lukwarm to the International Space Station just 250 miles above Earth?

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If commericial fusion power was developed, that would indeed be a momential achievement. It would be the end of fossil fuel and OPEC. It would transform geopolitics.

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