Fitzgerald,F. Way Out There in the Blue. 2000
Fitzgerald, Frances. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and
the End of the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 592 pages.
This is an extremely-detailed study of the evolution of the Strategic
Defense Initiative during the Reagan years. With the resurrection of this
program under the George W. Bush administration, it becomes more than just
another book by a prize-winning historian. Instead, it provides clues that
help us read between the lines of current Pentagon press releases.
The first clue is that all the experts conceded in the 1980s that
there was no such thing as a "shield" against MAD, or "mutually assured
destruction." They pretended that there was after the administration
stumbled into a PR coup. In the early 1980s, a massive global nuclear
freeze movement was underway, and Reagan took a dive in the polls. When
he naively began talking about a "shield" as an antidote to MAD, his
numbers went up and the freeze movement died down. He kept talking, and
aides scurried to make it a reality. That was Star Wars in a nutshell.
The second clue is even more relevant today. It turns out that what
worried the Soviet Union then, and Russia and China today, is that the
U.S. is the only country in a position to develop space-based weaponry.
These will be "defensive" in public rhetoric, but offensive in reality
(just reprogram some chips). Someday, lasers from space may police the
world on behalf of the U.S. and its elite transnationalist clientele.
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