That's true, in Germany, Russia fossil fuel companies funded the green movements and their anti nuke rhetoric.

And that, economically, the eye watering cost of nuclear power in america only makes sense at all if there is a military to share the skills base and supply chain with.

The nuclear military industrial complex alternately hates the environmentalist movement and wants to hold up a mask and pretend to be it.

If fossil fuels were so bad, we'd have less of it, right?

On longer time scales, in another century or two we could potentially deploy fusion at scale, depending on how that works out relative to space-based solar. In this one though, I'd agree the most effective way forward would be the one naturally arises without assuming massive changes to cost trajectories.