no one has brought up Bush's desire to get the old nuclear plants up and working again...there is every indication that, since the anti-missile defense system will utilize nuclear weapon technology, the push to "get our energy infrastructure in line with the times" is actually a way of putting MORE money into Star Wars...

It won't work, ever. It is a fantasy that Uncle Ronnie got all his starry-eyed fans to believe in. And blowing nuclear bombs up ('scuse me, TESTING them) in space is every bit as stupid as exploding them in the ocean or the desert...