The U.N. nuclear-watchdog agency has found that Taiwan's experiments with plutonium extended up to the mid-1980s, diplomats said yesterday, uncovering a key detail about the country's now-abandoned nuclear-weapons program.
The author argues that depleted-uranium (DU) weapons are "creating a radioactive nightmare for our troops and the civilians and combatants in the countries where they are used around the world."
Thomas Kalil, a former deputy assistant to the president for technology and economic policy in the Clinton administration, argues for full funding of the National Nanotechnological Initiative.
Bill Gates argued recently that it will be at least a generation before computers can fool people into thinking the machines are human.
Astronomers have logged about 10 percent of the large asteroids, which measure a half-mile or more across. NASA hopes to have all the large asteroids recorded within 10 years.