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Strauss viewed hydrogen fusion as the ultimate power source. He was eager to develop the technology as quickly as possible and urged the Project Sherwood researchers to make rapid progress, even suggesting a million-dollar prize to the individual or team that succeeded first.<ref>Bromberg, Joan Lisa (1982) ''Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [https://archive.org/details/fusionsciencepol0000brom/page/97 p. 44], {{ISBN|0-262-02180-3}}</ref> However Strauss was not optimistic about the rapid commercialization of fusion power. In August 1955 after fusion research was made public, he cautioned "there has been nothing in the nature of breakthroughs that would warrant anyone assuming that this [fusion power] was anything except a very long range—and I would accent the word 'very'—prospect."<ref name=nrcblog-20160603/>

No evidence has been found in Strauss's archived papers to indicate fusion was the secret subject of his speech.<ref name=nrcblog-20160603>{{cite web |url=https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/06/03/too-cheap-to-meter-a-history-of-the-phrase/ |title="Too Cheap to Meter": A History of the Phrase |author=[[Thomas Wellock]] |publisher=Nuclear Regulatory Commission |date=3 June 2016 |accessdate=15 February 2017}}</ref>

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