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 · 12 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Robert Zubrin 1 Aug 2023 · 9 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 · 6 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 [https://quillette.com/2022/04/14/how-we-can-get-clean-energy-fuel-and-human-progress/] explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress [https://quillette.com/2022/04/14/how-we-can-get-clean-energy-fuel-and-human-progress/] , Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe? Robert Zubrin 17 May 2022 · 11 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 [https://quillette.com/2022/04/14/how-we-can-get-clean-energy-fuel-and-human-progress/] explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress [https://quillette.com/2022/04/14/how-we-can-get-clean-energy-fuel-and-human-progress/] , Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe? Robert Zubrin 29 Apr 2022 · 13 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 [https://quillette.com/2022/04/29/how-we-can-get-clean-energy-part-ii/] answers the question "Is Nuclear Power Safe? [https://quillette.com/2022/04/29/how-we-can-get-clean-energy-part-ii/]" and Part 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