[bobsmooth]

>The Democratic Party has recently endorsed nuclear power:

The platform quote is basically lip-service to nuclear fans. Quite different from the Manhattan-Project-level of a response I imagine the author is in favour of.

>Others appear to be tautologies

There are a lot of opponents of GMO crops that consider themselves liberal or progressive.

>Those who participated didn't think of themselves as traitors.

Those that protested outside are not traitors. Those that broke into the Capitol building, with the intent to stop the count or not, committed treason. Trying to overthrow the government is not speech. Yeah the founding fathers were treasonous, but they were successful.

[8note]

Manhattan level?

How does poisoning abunch of poor island people help global warming?

[bobsmooth]

In 4 years nuclear weapons went from theory to testing the first bomb. $20 billion spent in that time to construct an entire nuclear industry. The largest building in the world, K-25, was built in 2 years with 25000 workers and employed up to 50000 in the surrounding area. That's the level of commitment I'm talking about.

[mattcwilson]

I believe GP is using a metaphor to describe a certain level of zeal and committed research funding from the government, as compared to a slogan in a newspaper article.

Certainly nuclear power generation has almost nothing to do with nuclear weapons testing.