Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer. His latest book, The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet was published in February 2024 by Diversion Books.

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What We Can Create on Mars

Mars contains all the materials needed to support not only life but technological civilization.

Robert Zubrin

19 Mar 2024 · 18 min read

Why We Should Settle Mars

Space exploration will bring us inventions that benefit humanity. And it will help us avoid war.

Robert Zubrin

4 Dec 2023 · 13 min read

How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?

A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

Robert Zubrin

1 Aug 2023 · 10 min read

A Declaration of Decadence

Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.

Robert Zubrin

30 May 2023 · 7 min read

Malthusian Theory Has Always Been False

A review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. (August 2022)

Robert Zubrin

8 Sep 2022 · 8 min read

How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?

Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?

Robert Zubrin

17 May 2022 · 12 min read

How We Can Get Clean Energy—Is Nuclear Power Safe?

Editor's note: this is the second in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?

Robert Zubrin

29 Apr 2022 · 14 min read

How We Can Get Clean Energy—Fuel and Human Progress

Editor's note: this is the first in a three part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I details Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question "Is Nuclear Power Safe?" and Part III provides an answer to "What Needs to Be

Robert Zubrin

14 Apr 2022 · 7 min read

Fusion Power is Coming

On February 8th, scientists associated with the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion experimental facility located in Oxfordshire, UK, announced that they had achieved a sustained fusion reaction releasing 11 megawatts of thermonuclear fusion power burning a deuterium-tritium plasma mixture continuously for five seconds. Nuclear fusion energy major breakthrough, created a

Robert Zubrin

21 Feb 2022 · 16 min read