Whether by accident or design, federal Opposition climate change and energy spokesman Ted O'Brien chose to write an op-ed about introducing nuclear power in Australia on a day [Wednesday] when the world remembers the destruction of Nagasaki, the second Japanese city to be smashed to smithereens by an American nuclear device in three days, the first having been Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
The most prominent person to be affected by US President Donald Trump's trade war with China is rarely mentioned in that context. That person is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who stands to make a fortune much bigger than he reaped from his software adventures if the tit-for-tat ends and he is able to go ahead with his plan for a new kind of nuclear power reactor.