Category Archives: High Frontier

June 26, 2018—May the Force Be With Us . . .

June 26, 2018—May the Force Be With Us . . .

by on in Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, SDI, Space, Space Defense

“Someday, not too distant; there can come streaking out of somewhere (We won’t be able to hear it, it will come so fast.) some kind of gadget with an explosive so powerful that one projectile will be able to wipe out completely this city of Washington. . . . I think we will meet the attack alright [sic] and, of course, in the air. But I’ll tell you one thing, there won’t be a …pilot in the sky! That attack will be met by machines guided not by human brains, but by devices conjured up by human brains.” ~ General Henry H. Arnold, 1943 Read Full Story

June 19, 2018—EMP Commission Reports Continue to Dribble Out . . .

June 19, 2018—EMP Commission Reports Continue to Dribble Out . . .

by on in EMP, EMP Commission, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier

“Protecting and defending the national electric grid and other critical infrastructures from cyber and EMP could be accomplished at reasonable cost and minimal disruption to the present systems that comprise U.S. critical infrastructure. This is commensurate with Trump Administration plans to repair and improve U.S. infrastructures, increase their reliability, and strengthen homeland defense and military capability. Continued failure to address the U.S. vulnerability to EMP generated by a high-altitude nuclear weapon invites such an attack.” ~Recently released July 2017 EMP Commission Executive Report.” Read Full Story

June 12, 2018—Mr. President, Support Sen. Cruz’s Space-Based Defense Initiative!

June 12, 2018—Mr. President, Support Sen. Cruz’s Space-Based Defense Initiative!

by on in Brilliant Pebbles, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, SDI, Space Based Defense, Space Based Interceptors

The first four Directors of what is now the Missile Defense Agency believed we knew how to build a cost-effective space-based interceptor system called Brilliant Pebbles 30 years ago. Moreover, Brilliant Pebbles became the first product of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to enter a formal Demonstration and Validation program, approved in 1990 by the Pentagon’s top acquisition executive. The fully vetted by the Pentagon cost estimators, in conjunction with outside expert critical reviews, estimated the cost for development, deployment and operations of 1000 space based interceptors for 20 years to be $20 billion in today’s dollars. We need to “go back to the future!” with today’s more advanced technology which should lead to lower costs. Read Full Story

June 5, 2018—Remembering D-Day . . .

June 5, 2018—Remembering D-Day . . .

by on in D-Day, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier

D-Day, the allied invasion to free our allies in Europe from Adolph Hitler’s Nazi oppression, was originally scheduled to begin on June 5, 1944—74 years ago today. But because of bad weather leading up to that day, USA General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, decided to delay the invasion of the Normandy beaches for 24 hours—to June 6th the day we celebrate as D-Day today. Read Full Story

May 22, 2018—What, Me Worry?

May 22, 2018—What, Me Worry?

by on in EMP, EMP Commission, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, NDAA 2019

“We who have worked in EMP for professional lifetimes are enormously frustrated to see amateurs, academics, reporters, and even some scientists untrained and uninformed posturing as experts. It is extremely dangerous when so many in the public forum deny or grossly underestimate EMP, ignorant of the vast body of scientific research and empirical evidence proving EMP is the greatest threat to our electronic civilization.” ~ Drs. William Radasky and Peter Vincent Pry Read Full Story

May 15, 2018—Need Presidential Executive Order to Implement EMP Commission Recommendations!

May 15, 2018—Need Presidential Executive Order to Implement EMP Commission Recommendations!

by on in EMP, EMP Commission, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, NDAA 2019

Following the EMP Commission’s last meeting on June 8-9, 2017, global events have strengthened public awareness of the worldwide vulnerability of critical infrastructures to high altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP). But the Commission’s reports are just now beginning to come out. President Trump should assure a much more responsive effort than is currently planned by the Congress, which foolishly canceled the past commission after it served with distinction for 17 years. Congress mandated a lengthy hiatus and eventually a new commission. Read Full Story

May 1, 2018—North Korea Do-Over?

May 1, 2018—North Korea Do-Over?

by on in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, North Korea, SDI

For the first time since I was a high school junior, the leaders of North and South Korea met last week in the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) where the armistice was signed ending the Korean War, but not the conflict and associated hostility that continues to this day. Is this really good news or will it just set the stage of a replay of past North Korean duplicity and U.S. accommodation? Read Full Story

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