Many have compared when last week President Trump walked out of his Hanoi meeting with Kim Jong Un and when Ronald Reagan walked out of his October 1986 Reykjavik Summit with Mikhail Gorbachev, without indicating and understanding fundamental differences between the two important events. Read Full Story
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” ~Sir Winston Churchill Read Full Story
“I believe it can be credibly argued that among President Reagan’s greatest acts of leadership was his commitment on March 23, 1983, to the Strategic Defense Initiative — SDI. . . He put it this way on the tenth anniversary of his SDI announcement: “It is as true today as it was ten years ago that this effort holds the promise of changing the course of human history, by freeing the world from the ominous threat of ballistic missile attack. Given the choice, shouldn’t we seek to save lives rather than avenge them?” ~ Former Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) . . . And it is still true today! Read Full Story
Last week there were two public pieces written by High Frontier Chairman Henry Cooper, which we want to share with you: On February 6th “Leaving the INF and Getting Putin’s Attention” was co-authoried with Daniel Gallington, and in the Washington Times. On February 8th, “It’s Time to Reinvest in our Strategic Missile Defense” was a letter to the… Read Full Story
Various recent articles reporting on President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty have claimed that his decision was in response to Russian violations in the past 6 or fewer years — grossly understating the period of Russian violations that actually began over a decade ago and were mostly ignored by the Obama administration. Read Full Story
High-altitude EMP (HEMP) attacks would produce no blast or other immediate effects harmful to humans, but would damage life sustaining electronics so that millions could die from its long-term collateral effects that black-out our national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures. Such attacks are regarded by enemy military planners as a relatively easy, potentially un-attributable means of inflicting mass destruction and forcing opponents to capitulate. Read Full Story
Brilliant Pebbles, the most important Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) concept from President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), entered a fully approved Concept Development and Validation (DemVal) program in 1990, anticipated to cost $20 billion (in today’s dollars) to begin deployment in space within five years and operate for 20 years. Current “powers that be” should make sure new studies take that definitive effort into account support President Trump’s Space Force initiative. Read Full Story
We plan to share lessons learned in our Lake Wylie Pilot Study throughout South and North Carolina and then to the rest of the nation. Yesterday’s discussions in Austin, Texas set the stage sharing those lessons outside the southeast; in this case outside the Eastern Interconnection of the Nation’s electric power grid. Since Texas has its own Interconnection, lessons learned in Texas will benefit the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the nation’s grid. Read Full Story
Brilliant Pebbles, the most important Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) concept developed by President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was canceled by the Clinton Administration for ideological reasons and has been ignored ever since. If resurrected by President Trump’s Space Force and supported by Congress, it could begin deployment in space within five years and operate for 20 years for a total cost of $20 billion or less. Read Full Story
Our two New Year’s resolutions for 2019 are: 1) To complete our Lake Wylie Pilot Study and begin exporting its lessons for protecting the electric grid throughout South and North Carolina and report our progress to the rest of the nation; and 2) To press for a Brilliant Pebbles space based interceptor system to be… Read Full Story
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