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The first time I saved us all was when I was a teenager.
The Reagan administration was promoting an idea for deployment of 100 ICBM's (the new MX missile, each having 10 MIRVs) in a 10 square mile geographical distribution popularly known as Dense Pack. The plan was based on the theory of fractricide.
The theory of fratricide claimed that during any Soviet "first strike" attempting to destroy US ICBMs in their silos, the explosions from the first two or three incoming Soviet warheads would also destroy any other incoming Soviet warheads, and thus no more than 3 US ICBMs would be destroyed; whereas, all of the incoming Soviet warheads would be destroyed.
I sent a letter to Caspar Weinberger, Reagan's Secretary of Defense, explaining that even if their theory was correct, the Soviets could simply send one or two missiles at a time, and the US would not be able to launch immediately after the first Soviet warhead landed because the next incoming warhead might be set to go off in the atmosphere where our missiles would still be in a tight group but far more vulnerable outside of their silos, and thus the second Soviet warhead might destroy many of our MX missiles and send the rest crashing down over the US and Canada.
I explained that the Soviets could also send dummy warheads, and thereby hold our missiles at bay for days.
Before I sent that letter, Dense Pack was frequently in the news, but three weeks after I sent it, I never heard another mention of Dense Pack ever again.
Friday, March 12, 2010
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Jim, YOU, sent a letter to Caspar Weinberger about those missile defenses??
ReplyDeleteDo you have a copy of that letter you sent?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you could get a copy of my letter through the Freedom of Information Act. It wasn't long though, so I have already conveyed all of the important points from it.
ReplyDeletehi, nice blog.
ReplyDeleteYou should read Lance Winslow. He is also an Internet blogger and article writer; he too has visions of grandeur, his ego, like yours, is greater than his intellect. His prose is also disconnected, often illogical and hyperbolic.
ReplyDeleteThe title suggests there was a 2nd time...or are you anticipating saving us again?
Rather than bash independent thinkers, why not become an independent thinker yourself? It is never to late to become the person you want to be. In the end, it will be the things you didn't do that you'll regret the most.
DeleteAny one of several of my ideas could save us all, but just like the ideas of many others that could also save us all, the people are too afraid and too complacent. Publishing my writing is another attempt to save us all by breaking down their fear and complacency, but for now, I am still developing my ideas, so I am not ready to confront the meanies in the media head on like other heroes such as Andrew Breitbart have done.