[pierrem15]

What he really thinks is unknown. What is known is that he knows what to say to get his trough filled.

It would be nice if a private company came up with this first, before the big government projects.

[Ozark Tom]

Robert Bussard fessed up that magnetic confinement fusion was a stop-gap program to gain funding and keep the lab teams together. He couldn’t believe the program was given credence after he departed as an assistant director to the AEC.