ABSTRACT
Although energy has become a central concern in both domestic and international affairs, in many countries coordination between long-standing domestic energy policy and the new international realities is poor indeed. Except for countries with abundant conventional resources of their own, the continued maintenance of energy security will depend on how soon the new energy technologies can be made to achieve industrial feasibility and penetrate the market. The reasons why countries choose to develop nuclear power may be many. Nuclear power is of course merely an option whose contribution to the total world energy picture may not exceed 10 percent in the coming ten to twenty years. The unlimited escalation of the nuclear arms race produces better methods to kill more people, leaving many with a sense of despair, wondering whether it is already too late to curb the march of science and technology.
