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Charles Seife
Charles Seife is a journalism professor at NYU and the author of several books, including
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
and
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Damien Jemison / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Is This the ‘Kitty Hawk Moment’ for Fusion Energy?
This week’s big news amounts to a symbolic achievement—and symbols matter.
Charles Seife
December 12, 2022