And too, re the correction on the bombs. Certainly a modern version of “beat the swords into ploughshares.”

Second, best we power our country with the old Russian shit than let it trade on the Al Qaeda Weapons Exchange–who did not take yesterday off as a memorial day. It’s just as good as using fallen steel from the World Trade Centers to build the USS New York. I guess.

BTW, the Times (original source of the article on nukes & power says the following:

A subheading on Tuesday with an article about the use of old nuclear bomb cores to produce electricity misstated the source of the bomb material used to generate power in the United States. It comes from bombs dismantled by both the United States and Russia — not from Russian bombs alone.

http://web.me.com/stewartbrand/DISCIPLINE_footnotes/Contents.html

And yeah, I think that burning the nukes for fuel is indeed the best use for them. And certainly a far better place for them to end up than, say, Bin Laden’s cave.

Synchronicities seem to be increasing on all fronts right now. . . .

http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2118641.html

In the meantime, we’re grabbing all the kilowattage we can lay our hands on. . . .for example, did you realize that 10% of the U.S. power supply right now comes from dismantled Russian nukes?

I’m stuck in the Land of Weird Synchronicity and this month it involves people mentioning topics that are in the book I am reading for fun, Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand (who edited a book called Space Colonies, which aged badly, and wrote a book called How Buildings Learn, which was imo pretty interesting). He chooses to see the burning warheads things as a good, since it draws down the number of nuclear warheads available to toss around.

My sense of what you find interesting indicates to me you’d enjoy WED, although I think you’d find things to disagree with in it.