There is a lesson that keeps arriving in new and more violent forms: Energy security is national security. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 delivered it to Europe, which woke up to the folly of overdependence on Russian gas. Now, Operation Epic Fury, and the strikes and counter-strikes between the United States, Israel and Iran, is delivering new reminders, with a twist that policymakers have barely begun to reckon with.
Nuclear power plants are becoming targets of war.
