The title of the executive order is on the short side for Trump: “Launching the Genesis Mission.”

It reads in part:

In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.

According to Michael Kratsios , the science advisor to the president, that Manhattan Project comparison is just the beginning. The Genesis Mission is also, we’re being told, “the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program.”

Then again, the Trump administration says stuff. The president said nuclear weapons tests were going to begin “ im

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