"North Korea holds in its hand the ability to bring not just the Korean Peninsula, but Asia and the United States, to the brink of war," Zarate said. "They are the masters of playing brinksmanship, they've continued their nuclear program, continued their ballistic missile capabilities." Beyo...
5. Safer than other fossil fuels Compared to coal mining, oil drilling, and nuclear energy, natural gas extraction, transport, and use comes with less risk and fewer accidents or catastrophes. It does not spill like oil or create toxic coal ash. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. homes and bu...
it can make a case for war, by obfuscating the nuclear program in Iran. This has become clearer as administration mouthpieces blur the distinction between uranium enrichment for a civilian energy use (permitted to signatories of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty) and the much more demanding req...
Public-private partnerships could foster opportunities to find threatening asteroids. The B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization founded to help protect Earth from asteroids, plans a privately-financed space telescope for launch in 2018. The Sentinel Space Telescope will discover and catalog 90 perce...