As she spoke I nearly 'melted' away. This didn't seem real. This couldn't happen. Here I was, an insignificant junior diplomat, sitting across an exquisitely beautiful woman with two doctoral degrees who is engaged in leading edge research, and this woman has chosen to take some time out for me! I felt so tiny, so infinitesimally small, and yet so deeply honored. I asked cautiously if she was working at the leading edge of this rich new frontier. She answered that she was. She said that her favorite field in organic engineering was more advanced than nuclear physics, although nuclear physics has also a great potential for benefiting mankind. She pointed out that nuclear power is our energy resource for the future. "Nuclear physics and its branch of engineering haven't even begun to be developed," she added, "but when it takes off, watch out!"

      While talking about these things, she asked me if I knew that the entire mantle of the Earth is made up of metallic silicates of magnesium and iron, and that these silicates constitute a body of high-grade ore for two of the most useful metals known. She said that this resource is unimaginably huge, that it extends right around the Earth in a layer that is 2900 Km thick at any given place. I had to admit that I had no awareness of this. She suggested that with a few advances in nuclear engineering these metals could be released from their molecular bonds and be utilized to develop the world.

      "We have riches at our feet that we have never dreamed of," she added. "With this infinite resource of materials we can easily build anything we can imagine. We can create fifty story buildings thousands of acres wide and grow our food indoors in totally controlled environments, safely, without the use of pesticides that kill the microbes in the soil. Soil microbes are crucial to human health, you know. They make our food rich in minerals and make it nutritious...."

      "Wait," I interrupted, "I thought that the research funds for this kind of research has been cut, together with the funding cuts for nuclear-energy-related development work."

      "Of course, they have," said Erica. This time she didn't smile. "Funding for this has been cut all over the world, especially in the West where you live. They want to starve humanity to death. It's the same old story all over again. They want us to focus our gaze onto the most primitive energy resources, and onto the most limited mineral resources for our economy and for our nutrition."

      She paused as if she was searching for an answer. "I see the same narrow kind of thinking in the field of science, Peter, which I see also restricting the focus of a married person onto only one single flower amidst the rich profusion of fragrance and color and delicate shapes that abound in the garden of life. I see an enforcement of poverty in both cases. They want humanity to close its eyes and minds to the infinite riches that lie at its feet in the physical world. Nuclear fission, all by itself, can power the world with existing resources for as long as the Earth exists, not to mention nuclear fusion power, which promises to be two magnitudes greater and more efficient. But we aren't even allowed to think about that. The people who rule the minds of humanity want to shut down this notion and get us to focus on the smallest and the most primitive energy resource, like windmills."

      Erica sighed. "Unfortunately, these people have a great deal of political power to pursue their destructive demands," she said. "It's become risky to even talk about nuclear power development. They want to steal humanity's future. It's is more desirable for them to rule a poverty stricken world, than to exist in an advanced and developing world in which they would have no power over society. They need to spread poverty in order to be able to continue their game of looting the world. Nuclear power would put an end to that chain of poverty. That's why they aim to shut it down forever. They know that nuclear power is humanity's future. They just don't want us to have a future, and most of all, they don't want the public to know that. Every advance in civilization depends on expanding energy production. If nuclear energy is fully developed we have a resource for energy production that will last us a billion years. This estimate doesn't even take under consideration the vastly greater potential that nuclear fusion power opens up."

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