Lawrence Kadish

Pictured: President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on the rapid development, deployment and use of advanced nuclear technologies, on May 23, 2025, in the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The British were the first to develop the aircraft carrier as an emerging weapon of war. But it was the Japanese who perfected the ship by combining as many as four aircraft carriers into a single battle group and deploying a task force that led to their devastating strike against the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Like the fighter who distracts his foe with feints before bringing an uppercut that knocks out his opponent, the world has been exclusively focused on Iran shutting the Straits of Hormuz while ignoring the chilling fact that it is a regime of theocratic extremists who have launched ballistic missiles capable of hitting Europe as well as US bases in the Indian Ocean. These Iranian ayatollahs want nuclear warheads on those missiles. That is where the real threat lies – not in some Middle East waterway - but in Iran's missile silos.

Developing nuclear fusion energy -- which will be indispensable to generate the enormous amounts of energy that will soon be needed for AI, data centers, quantum computing, and to prevent the Communist Chinese Party from overtaking the United States as

For decades, fusion energy has been the great scientific pursuit — clean, limitless power drawn from the same physics that powers the sun. Enormous progress has been made in the technology required to harness nuclear fusion and significant investment is

If the US is ever successfully to compete with China for global supremacy in the new field of AI, and other technological advances, much of it will depend on the massive amounts of limitless, inexpensive clean energy that will be needed to power the electricity required, helped by the two generous oceans on either side of the US that offer more than enough hydrogen for an endless supply.

History has a way of offering its lessons time and again. During the Second World War, the United States learned a costly lesson about the vulnerability of its oil tankers to enemy action. Today, the world is being offered the same lesson at the Strait

For the sake of argument, let us consider a world where Donald J. Trump did not win the presidential election that returned him to the Oval Office in 2025 and, instead, Kamala Harris won that contest.

Much is being made of the recent launch pad explosion of Blue Origin's massive rocket, an event that to some suggests we may have lost our way in seeking the high ground of space.

Not so very long ago, the Pacific was the scene of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II, where no quarter was given.