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A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A production engineer works at the new ThyssenKrupp Nucera SOEC green hydrogen components pilot plant on May 27, 2025, in Arnstadt, Germany. (Jens Schlueter via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on April 22, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov via Getty Images)
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A general view of the US Department of Energy on February 14, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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Aerial view of solar panels at a high-altitude photovoltaic base on October 29, 2022, in Sichuan Province of China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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Cars wait in line at the Bender crossing point between the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria and Moldova on March 1, 2024. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)
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A section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River on May 13, 2023. (Photo by Li Lin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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A cryostat at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge, MA on December 13, 2021. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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A 550-ton outer dome is hoisted in place at the construction site of the world's first commercial small modular reactor, Linglong One, on February 6, 2024, in Hainan Province, China. (Photo by Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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Brigham A. McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
