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Nuclear failsBudget issues and internal division hinders nuclear plants functioning ability Harwood 11 - writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, the Huffington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review ( 2/25/2011, Matthew, “Fusion Centers Continue to Experience Growing Pains” http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/fusion-centers-continue-experience-growing-pains-008235,bs) Because no two fusion centers are alike, their annual budgets vary dramatically from a low of $300,000 to a maximum of $8 million, according to Sleeper. And while most fusion centers rely on a complex mix of funding mechanisms, most are heavily dependent on federal funding. Further, he said, the centers exist on year-to-year grants, complicating long-term investment decisions. It’s a problem the FBI’s Drake knows well.“It is concerning to us when it’s hard to plan more than a year out at a time,” he said, “Do we buy a plotter if next year we can’t afford toner. Sounds silly, but that’s the type of discussions we have.” Col. Terry Ebbert, a retired U.S. Marine and the former director of homeland security for New Orleans, said the federal government must prioritize funding for fusion centers. Otherwise fusion centers get caught up in the “feeding frenzy” of the homeland security grant process as states and localities compete for scarce resources. “We as a nation need to decide what is our priority and then demand those dollars be expended to accomplish the priorities,” he said. Internal divisions and mistrust also hinder fusion centers’ ability to function properly at the field office. “Our biggest struggle now is probably our culture ,” said Drake, noting its hard for a police detective or a federal agent to hand over a case they’ve built up to another agency for fear they’ll screw it up. No Fusion ResearchFusion centers are going to decrease Harwood 11 - writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, the Huffington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review ( 2/25/2011, Matthew, “Fusion Centers Continue to Experience Growing Pains” http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/fusion-centers-continue-experience-growing-pains-008235,bs) Nevertheless, many fusion centers may not survive if they cannot solve their myriad problems, said Kenneth Bouche, a former chief information officer for the Illinois State Police and now a senior vice president at security firm Hillard Heintz. "If you think that in the funding crisis that we have coming in the next three years that fusion centers are going to survive without some radical changes," he said, "I believe you're wrong." Fusion centers, according to Bouche, have to concentrate on serving the needs of their communities, or taking an all-hazards approach, and cannot allow themselves to become tools of the federal government. "Terrorism is what's happening in our communities," he said. "Its the woman who has to put her child to bed in a bath tub because she's afraid of bullets, it's meth, and it's terror.... States have to recognize that we're keeping our constituents safe." Johnson said fusion centers must work. “This is Plan A,” he said. “There is no Plan B, and there shouldn’t be a plan B.” Cyberterror will escalateCyber warfare can escalate Harwood 9 - writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, the Huffington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review ( 6/7/2009, Matthew, “America's cybersecurity threat” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/01/obama-us-cybersecurity-tsar, bs ) Obama alluded to such a scenario in his speech when he said: "Indeed, in today's world, acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few key strokes on the computer – a weapon of mass disruption." He also cited a cyber-exploit last year where malicious software – malware – infected thousands of military computers, as well as the cyber-attacks, presumably from Russia, that crippled Georgia's digital infrastructure before Russian tanks rolled in. The idea that trading cyber-attacks between nations could lead to war isn't science fiction. Cyberterror- AT DeterrenceMutually assured destruction does not apply to cyber terrorism Harwood 9 - writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, the Huffington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review ( 6/7/2009, Matthew, “America's cybersecurity threat” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/01/obama-us-cybersecurity-tsar, bs ) When there can be no certainty who the attacker is, the cold war maxim of mutually assured destruction loses its morbid appeal. No one should forget that November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai were an attempt by Pakistani jihadists to provoke war between India and Pakistan. It isn't crazy to assume that terrorists might dress up a cyber-attack to look like the first volley of a coordinated military attack by one nation against another. If a nation believes a cyber-attack is a prelude to an invasion, you can bet they will respond in kind, if technically feasible, or escalate the conflict to deter continuing attacks, whether physical or cyber. Mining water uselessMining on the moon for water is useless Williams 10 - a M.S. in Physics and is a physics faculty member at Santa Rose Junior College in Northern California. (2010, Lynda, “Irrational Dreams of Space Colonization, journal of social justics,bs) Although evidence of water has been discovered on both bodies, it exists in a form that is trapped in minerals, which would require huge amounts of energy to access. Water can be converted into fuel either as hydrogen or oxygen, which would eliminate the need to transport vast amounts of fuel from Earth. According to Britain’s leading spaceflight expert, Professor Colin Pillinger, however, “You would need to heat up a lot of lunar soil to 200C to get yourself a glass of water.”The promises of helium as an energy source on the moon is also mostly hype. Helium-3 could be used in the production of nuclear fusion energy, a process we have yet to prove viable or efficient on Earth. Mining helium would require digging dozens of meters into the lunar surface and processing hundreds of thousands of tons of soil to produce one ton of helium-3. (25 tons of helium-3 would be required to power the United States for one year.) Fusion also requires the very rare element tritium, which does not exist naturally on the moon, Mars, or Earth in the abundances needed to facilitate nuclear fusion energy production. Currently, there are no means for generating the energy on the moon needed to extract the helium-3 to produce the promised endless source of energy. 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