The nuclear fusion breakthrough, explained

Everyone is very excited these days about nuclear fusion. But what is it?

In very simple terms: a thermonuclear reaction that actually creates more energy than it requires, , Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.

That's what a bunch of US scientists pulled off a month ago. It lasted ... a few trillionths of a second.

Still, successful nuclear fusion one of the biggest biggest scientific breakthroughs of the century. And the race is on for America to build the first commercial fusion plant before China does.

Watch the GZERO World episode: Rogue states gone nuclear and the watchdog working to avert disaster