STAR POWER

Life on Earth depends on the Sun — our star. The book describes the past 100 years of research to understand and build a model of a star — using the most creative and advanced technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Starting from a breakthrough in 1938 of our understanding of the nuclear fusion reactions that power the Sun and other stars, we have created explosions using the same nuclear physics that powers stars. Now, we are developing complex machines that use the same nuclear physi...