Cold Fusion -- An 18 Year Retrospective Short Description

18 years after the APS voted to refute the reality of Cold Fusion in Baltimore, it is appropriate to consider what has changed. Who was right? We will review the current state of knowledge from the perspective of what we know now compared to what we knew then\footnote{Hagelstein, M.C.H. McKubre, et al, Proc ICCF11, pp 23-59 (2006). http://www.lenrcanr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinnewphysica}. Discussion will be made of various avenues of research that we have followed from the original Fleischmann Pons proposal: some failed, some unresolved and some successful.