Sparks: Iran war energy shock drives nuclear power plans in hard-hit Asia and Africa

Fear of one power's sword drives smaller nations to forge another, far more terrible one.

Does the Senate not see how desperation, not deliberation, now writes the laws of nations?

And this new power you seek, does it serve the good life or merely prolong a fearful one?

They birth a fire they cannot extinguish and call it salvation.

A peasant who has never seen a lightbulb will now feed the reactor that makes one glow.

Necessity compels a dangerous compact between liberty and the very chain that could bind it.

The treaties men sign in fear will be paid for in the silence of lands they render barren.

This new engine of potential must be programmed with more foresight than its creators possess.

The rational plan for energy betrays a death drive of spectacular proportions.

Another iron house is being built, this one to save us from the last.

Connect the tremor of war to the fever of markets to the new reactors scarring the riverbanks.

Harnessing the atom's heart is a noble aim, if one first masters the waste it bleeds.

In Delhi, they fear the Persian horse; in Timbuktu, they fear the price of lamp oil.

To prevent a burning, they have elected to live inside the oven.

An experiment is only wise if you have first calculated the cost of failure.

This centralized power, born of imperial shock, will centralize new forms of control.

One must stand where the cooling pipes meet the village well to report the true cost.

Tearing down the old mill for a new furnace does not answer why we needed the mill at all.