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NEW!
The Planet Masters Book 1, Preparation.
A novel about the establishment of a long-term-sustainable planetary
management system to provide a high quality of life for human beings in a
species-rich biosphere.
NEW! (This piece is not a novel, but an article providing technical background information for the preceding two novels.) A New World Order: The Coming Transition from Fossil Fuels and Capitalism to Nuclear Energy and Eco-Socialism. This article describes a plan for establishing a long-term-sustainable planetary management system on Earth. The proposed system will enable humankind to live with a high level of freedom and without poverty in harmony with an ecologically rich biosphere.
Synarchy Alternative Futures graphic.
MX... the little book that helped destroy a giant missile system. MX... a spy novel that, although written in 1978, has much relevance today.
Some background: Back in the late 1970s, the US Department of Defense conceived a new ballistic missile system, called the MX system. “MX” stood for “Missile Experimental.” The Safeguard ballistic missile defense system had been abandoned as ineffective and obsolete a few years earlier, and was dismantled in 1976. The MX system was to be the next phase in the US program of ballistic missile warfare. This was several years before the “Star Wars” concept was introduced (on March 23, 1983) by President Ronald Reagan.
The MX system was one more step in the policy of “mutual assured destruction,” or MAD. The MX missiles were not antimissile missiles (interceptor missiles) placed around potential US targets (cities or defense establishments). They were large intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) aimed at the USSR to utterly destroy it in the event that it launched a “first-strike” attack against the US. Although a MAD system is essentially an offensive system, it is often referred to as a defensive system, because it deters the enemy from attacking (since he knows that he will be destroyed if he does). It should, however, more properly be referred to as a “deterrence” system, rather than a “defensive” system.
The MX system was to be built all over the Southwest United States. It would consist of a number of large circular (or close-looped) railroad tracks. All along the railroad tracks are missile sites, most of which are either fake sites or empty underground “silos,” and only a few of which contain missiles (intercontinental ballistic missiles, aimed at targets in the Soviet Union). A train keeps moving the missiles from site to site in a manner such that the Russians don’t know which sites contain missiles. The system was often referred to as “the racetrack system.”
I was convinced that the MX system had some serious drawbacks, but I was not really in a position to tell why. I possessed very high-level defense security clearances, and this severely restricted my ability to publicly say anything credible on the subject of missile defense. So what to do?
I decided to write a spy novel that would parody the MX missile system, as a means of defeating the system. I wrote the novel, MX, had a few thousand copies printed at a local printing company, and distributed copies to members of congress. Before long, the MX system fell into disfavor.
