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In 2010, there were more nuclear power units under construction worldwide than in any year since 1988. Even before Fukushima, however, status indicators for the international nuclear industry were showing a negative trend. Fewer countries are operating nuclear fission reactors for energy purposes than in previous years, and many countries are now past their nuclear peak. Worldwide nuclear production is generally declining, and many new projects are experiencing construction delays. Even if reactors can be operated for an average of 40 years, 74 new plants would have to come on line by 2015 to maintain the status quo, which is impossible given current constraints on fabricating reactor components. Developments in Asia, particularly in China, do not fundamentally change the global picture. The dramatic post-Fukushima decisions in two of the four largest economies, Japan and Germany, and in several other nuclear countries could accelerate the decline of a rapidly aging industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about Wernher von Braun, a German-American rocket engineer and space visionary. In his early career, von Braun was a designer of missiles, in fact, he was the leader of the team who designed V-2 ballistic missile for the Nazi Germany. However, when the United States Army made his rocket-engineer organization transfer to National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1960, his career focus dramatically shifted from making weapons to peaceful space exploration. He had dreamt of space travel and planned of constructing a manned space station to function as a base for further space exploration and as a battle station and orbiting reconnaissance platform to achieve "space superiority" over the Soviet Union.

The article discusses the history of the preemption efforts of the U.S. against nuclear proliferation in various nations including Germany and Soviet Union. The U.S. aggressiveness towards stopping Saddam Hussein's nuclear aspiration have made them spent a long time on tabletop exercise, resulting to the production of nuclear weapons of Soviet Union, China and Pakistan. However, the use of military forces for nuclear nonproliferation are contended by many nations. This article describes the history and adversaries of the U.S. government against the nuclear facilities of Germany as with the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler.

This article ponders the future of NATO after the collapse of European communism. NATO leaders have thought of seven reasons to stay in business, even though the communist threat has crumbled. NATO members indeed have a good reason for being pleased--the epic change in Europe's political and military landscape. More tacitly, NATO also served to fetter West German military might. For political and military reasons, the United States should remain closely allied and militarily present in Europe, and NATO guarantees that coupling. In the meantime, NATO should actively participate in building the European security community, although, in the process, it will lose importance as the Soviet Union turns into a political partner and as CSCE institutions progressively assume more of NATO's current functions.

Looks at the positive impact of the migration of European physicists to the U.S. Escape of scientists from fascist and authoritarian regimes in Europe; Albert Einstein's decision to leave Germany and settle in the U.S. in the 1930s; Einstein's oscillation between German- and English-speaking countries and the vast differences in atmosphere; Einstein's life and work in the U.S.; Werner Heisenberg's praise for the U.S. style of research; Names of European scientists who migrated to the U.S.

The article discusses the conditions in Germany concerning the relationship between Soviet Union and the U.S. Several factors are being examined which include the power politics and the modern technology. Meanwhile, political leaders are convinced that in the case of a direct attack on one's country, this rational must stop and the instinct of fighting back at all cost will take over. The author believes that the grand design of American policies in the power struggle with Soviet Union should be the widest possible stabilization of the status quo.