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“What About the Nukes?”
The United States’ thousands of nuclear warheads have the explosive equivalent of over 1 gigaton of TNT. It’s an amount of energy that could literally move mountains, reroute rivers, alter climate, and result in the deaths of hundreds of millions or even billions of people, through fire, radiation, and starvation.
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“Melting Down and Scaling Up: Stabilizing Climate Change by Promoting Private Sector Technology Development”
This paper will examine the role the private sector plays in researching, developing, and deploying technology that has the potential to deter or decrease the impacts of global warming. It will explore the degree to which the private sector can have an impact on global warming by focusing on four specific technologies: aircraft engines, wind turbines, solar energy, and clean coal technologies.
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“Stop Laser Uranium Enrichment”
The US Congress should discourage efforts to advance the technology to make fuel for nuclear reactors, say Francis Slakey and Linda R. Cohen — the risks outweigh the benefits.
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“Why We Need to Keep Nuclear Facilities in Plain Sight”
This would be a major and dangerous change from the way things work now. Fortunately, the secret uranium enrichment facility in North Korea was uncovered. Fortunately, the “secret” facility in Qom, Iran was also spotted. But, now our luck may be running out; we are on the brink of losing our ability to detect covert uranium enrichment plants.
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Public Sector Prizes and Challenges Show Increased Sophistication, Ambition and Use: A Fiscal Year 2014 Progress Report
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Accelerating the Use of Prizes to Address Tough Challenges
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Celebrating 5-year Anniversary of Challenge.gov and More than 20 New Prizes (Oct 7, 2015, OSTP Blog)
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“The Craft of Innovative Prize Design” by Deloitte
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