In April, the Bush Administration proposed cutting $100 million from a raft of DOE programs to improve nuclear security in Russia, from securing plutonium stockpiles against potential smugglers to helping nuclear physicists find peaceful work (Science, 1 June, p. 1632).
The interim deal cost the IAEA more than €5m up to the end of June, on top of its €344m annual budget for promoting nuclear safety and peaceful uses of atomic science.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAA) in 1958 with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science.
He advised ten US Presidentsfrom Harry S. Truman to Bill Clintonon nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science.
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"The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism," he will say.
The signposts of strategic partnership will hopefully have sectors such as clean energy, innovation in science and technology, peaceful use of nuclear energy, space, education and skills development, securing global supply chains, interdict illicit finance flows and counterfeit currency, intelligence sharing, enhanced cyber security, and the expansion of trade and investment.
(Presto Studios; $50; for PC and Macintosh; everyone) CIVILIZATION III -- When I founded Greece, I planned for it to be a peaceful nation ruled by learning and science.
"To do anything less is to accept that the events of 11 September could be repeated on an even larger scale through the misuse of the science and technology we generate for peaceful purposes".
