The Cold War era (1945-1989) produced a large amount of mutual disinformation regarding the interplay of scientific activities that were undertaken in the USA and simultaneously in the USSR. However, there were occasional, bright spots on the horizon, which happily contributed to periods of scientific and engineering exchanges that partially gave the world civilizations some concrete evidence that human hope was not simply a “Fool’s Daydream”.
Détente or a lessening of tensions – the Russians called it perestroika, appeared to open avenues of mutual benefits. Those were the days of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russian politics.
Today’s Hot Temperatures in North America and Western Europe
Newspaper articles from France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, etc. are flooded with news about heat waves and forest fires from the Atlantic to the Urals. Similar evidence of human discomfort also dominates news reports here in the USA. Recorded temperatures reached unprecedented highs across zones in the Northern Hemisphere of our globe.
The very existence of our advanced civilizations depends on humanity’s ability to create worldwide temperature controls, which can be locally tweaked through a new source of clean energy. Today, there exist a consortium of national R&D projects (35 nations) designed to turn experimental nuclear power sources into futuristic tokamak/Stellarator power plants.
Listed below is a number of reports that highlight hopeful signs for a better and more secure energy future for our world:
See: tokamak and Stellerator articles.