💣 The US sought to halt Iran’s nuclear program, weaken its economy, and isolate it. But Iran’s centrifuges are still spinning—and now the US has brought itself to the edge of the cliff.
I feel like this topic and Bob Zubrin's piece on nuclear energy somehow need to be tied together because while I do think everyone agrees anti nuclear energy sentiment is strongest on the political left in my experience you don't have to dig too deeply on the right to find people deeply ambivalent about nuclear energy on non proliferation grounds.
Actually there is was a good opinion piece released in the New Republic a few days back that basically made the argument from the personal perspective from the author that really almost all opposition to nuclear energy is underneath really about "the bomb" and especially pronounced among older people who lived through the Cold War.
I feel like this topic and Bob Zubrin's piece on nuclear energy somehow need to be tied together because while I do think everyone agrees anti nuclear energy sentiment is strongest on the political left in my experience you don't have to dig too deeply on the right to find people deeply ambivalent about nuclear energy on non proliferation grounds.
Actually there is was a good opinion piece released in the New Republic a few days back that basically made the argument from the personal perspective from the author that really almost all opposition to nuclear energy is underneath really about "the bomb" and especially pronounced among older people who lived through the Cold War.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167045/climate-nuclear-power-safety
I'm surprised this didn't generate more heat in the comments. Many of Trump's supporters are vocal champions of his posture towards Iran.