The letter focuses on uranium production for defense purposes, but it also mentions subsidizing uranium for domestic energy production. The so-called “Red Book Retrospective” summarizes trends in global uranium using the OECD’s annual Uranium Red Books from 1965 to 2005. Once government subsidies halted in the early 1980s, domestic uranium production plummeted. Domestic uranium prices ballooned and ultimately created uranium stockpiles large enough to cover years’ worth of demand. “The United States … is home to vast uranium deposits”The United States does not possess vast uranium deposits.