After several days, we are then scheduled for the first flight into Chicago, with the possibility the plane may land anywhere in the Midwest. There were only about 8 or 10 passengers awaiting this first flight, and one of them, along with some of his colleagues, was Dr. Ronald Martin of Argonne National Laboratory. I told him all about the Richmond dinner and Mellon, and Dr. Martin told me all about his Washington, D.C. visit to the Department of Energy regarding his proposed Heavy Ion Fusion program. How exciting this place called Argonne National Laboratory. I found these guys at Argonne National Laboratory, who knew so much, to be just like kids playing in a candy store with their toys.
Discovery is fun.
The Fusion 2000 book was finished in late 1980, and our letter writing campaign with approximately 150 copies were mailed throughout the world from January through August 1981. Dr. Martin and Dr. Golestaneh, read it, said it was okay. However, most or some part of all this information and emphasis came from their scientific perspective. Allan and I were just trying to express the urgency and necessity. The process is Inertial Confinement Fusion by High Energy Heavy Ions.