Yeah, the Carter bit made no sense. I remember Carter, and a lot of his bad decisions were very much NOT the result of "engineer thinking". One that comes immediately to mind is his executive order outlawing breeder reactors, which has basically saddled us with being unable to cleanly reprocess reactor waste back into usable fuel. Never mind the fact that only a very specific type of breeder reactor produces weapons-grade plutonium, and never mind that as a nuclear enginner he SHOULD have known this, he still banned them in a bizarre attempt to ingratiate himself with the 70's "disarmament/anti nuke" movement that never seemed to fully grasp the distinction between nuclear WEAPONS and nuclear POWER.