Weinberg on breeder reactors

In The First Nuclear Era, Alvin Weinberg wrote:

"I became obsessed with the Idea that humankind's whole future depended on the breeder. For Society generally to achieve and maintain a standard of living of today's developed countries, depends on the avaliability of relatively cheap, inexhaustible sources of energy."

His envisioned the goal of technology to be providing everyone on the planet with with the American standard of living. The breeder reactor was to play a critical role.