Speculation about how he might apply his scientific energies ranges over a large area. His insights might be very useful to those who have struggled with limited success in the past three decades toward bringing the power of nuclear fusion from the laboratory to the industrial world. His knowledge, combined with his moral authority and sense of responsibility, might be a decisive factor in charting the future of nuclear energy in the West and around the world.
The diversity of his scientific interests has been astonishing. He' has made contributions in different and remote fields of science, both applied and theoretical.
It was his idea to use the solid compounds of deuterium and tritium with lithium rather than the liquid components that made the Soviet hydrogen bomb more effective, and a combat weapon. An equally major milestone was his proposal (made together with Nobel Prize winner Igor Tamm) to create ...
