Given the current support for fusion research and development, commercializing fusion power remains many decades away.

FORBES: A Challenge to America: Develop Fusion Power Within a Decade

If we are serious about fusion development, the president should appoint a fusion power commissioner with the authority to organize and streamline the research, development, and deployment of fusion power, especially by directing new areas of research and development within our national laboratories.

FORBES: A Challenge to America: Develop Fusion Power Within a Decade

After the Soviet Union broke America's atomic monopoly in 1949, several prominent scientists and politicians favoured the development of the hydrogen bomb, a fusion weapon hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs that the Manhattan Project had built.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oppenheimer