The ITER Thermonuclear Fusion Research-Education as the Vehicle for the Increase in both National Security and Global Stability

POSTER

Abstract

It is argued that the permanent government-private support increase on the national level in the research-education in energy sources physics augments the quality of national security, on one hand, and national-global stability, on the other hand.$^{\mathrm{\thinspace }}$\footnote{V. F. Weisskopf Center for National Security Physics and Global Cooperation, Stefan University; You Tube video: \newline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v$=$aVtOYuX816s} \footnote{V. Stefan (Editor-Author) Physics and Society (AIP Press-Springer, 1998)---In Honor of V.F. Weisskopf; p.21., Weisskopf, the Director General (1961--1965) of the CERN. } \footnote{M N Rosenbluth Summer School (S-U Press, La Jolla, California; 2007); \par Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth Center for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Studies-Stefan University; You Tube video: \newline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v$=$0iCMIAX3tjA} The ITER, as an international fusion energy program, has the latent characteristic of a national defense-security research, in addition to the obvious one---the increase in global collaboration-education and global stability.

Authors

  • V. Alexander Stefan

    The Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth Center for Thermonuclear Fusion Studies (Stefan University), THE V. F. WEISSKOPF CENTER for NATIONAL-SECURITY-PHYSICS and GLOBAL COOPERATION-Stefan University