National Nanotechnology Initiative: The Initiative and Its Implementation Plan

My budget supports a major new National Nanotechnology Initiative, worth 500 million. the ability to manipulate matter at the atomic and molecular level. Imagine the possibilities materials with ten times the strength of steel and only a small fraction of the weight -- shrinking all the information housed at the Library of Congress into a device the size of a sugar cube -- detecting cancerous tumors when they are only a few cells in size. Some of our research goals may take 20 or more years to achieve, but that is precisely why there is an important role for the federal government.