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The Tesla Dilemma
Congratulations, Mr. President!
Over the weekend you were sworn in as POTUS. Now on Monday it's time to receive your "Secrets Briefing". This is where George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, tells you about the deepest darkest secrets of the US Government.
George tells you that there are two threats that are rated the most dangerous to the nation: North Korea and OBL. He describes each, but stresses North Korea as the most dangerous. OBL has blown up a couple of embassies and detonated a bomb in the World Trade Center, but hasn't proven the capability for mass death. North Korea is thought to have enough fissile material for two nuclear warheads and has 1 million troops facing you along the Korean DMZ. And NK is unpredictable.
George turns the briefing over to Henry Shelton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who tells you about the military capabilities of the US Government. He also goes through the experimental projects, such as the flying saucers being tested by Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks.
Henry ends his part of the briefing by describing a microwave technology which allows the military to lock onto a particular metal that is used in all conventional arms and heats it to point where all the arms are rendered inoperable. Just point it in the right direction. The thing about this technology is that it's almost trivial to implement by any country. Just that nobody has ever researched it, except us and the Russians.
Fast forward to the year 2003. North Korea is getting a little ornery. 10 million people may starve with the status quo and the leadership is threatening to become a nuclear state, destroying 50 years of nuclear non-proliferation work. The question then becomes: Do you plan your military and diplomatic activities with regard to North Korea with this microwave device as part of the arsenal? That is, would you plan to use it, if necessary?
If you do, then you will be able to defeat the NKs rather easily--very minimal loss on both sides. You will therefore be more aggressive in your diplomacy. However, most other countries will then see how effective and easy this technology is, causing havock for the current world order.
If you don't, you will subject the American people and the world to a combination of nuclear and conventional blackmail that might not be effective in the end.
What do you do?
The parameters in the following primer can be used to help form your opinion...
Over the weekend you were sworn in as POTUS. Now on Monday it's time to receive your "Secrets Briefing". This is where George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, tells you about the deepest darkest secrets of the US Government.
George tells you that there are two threats that are rated the most dangerous to the nation: North Korea and OBL. He describes each, but stresses North Korea as the most dangerous. OBL has blown up a couple of embassies and detonated a bomb in the World Trade Center, but hasn't proven the capability for mass death. North Korea is thought to have enough fissile material for two nuclear warheads and has 1 million troops facing you along the Korean DMZ. And NK is unpredictable.
George turns the briefing over to Henry Shelton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who tells you about the military capabilities of the US Government. He also goes through the experimental projects, such as the flying saucers being tested by Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks.
Henry ends his part of the briefing by describing a microwave technology which allows the military to lock onto a particular metal that is used in all conventional arms and heats it to point where all the arms are rendered inoperable. Just point it in the right direction. The thing about this technology is that it's almost trivial to implement by any country. Just that nobody has ever researched it, except us and the Russians.
Fast forward to the year 2003. North Korea is getting a little ornery. 10 million people may starve with the status quo and the leadership is threatening to become a nuclear state, destroying 50 years of nuclear non-proliferation work. The question then becomes: Do you plan your military and diplomatic activities with regard to North Korea with this microwave device as part of the arsenal? That is, would you plan to use it, if necessary?
If you do, then you will be able to defeat the NKs rather easily--very minimal loss on both sides. You will therefore be more aggressive in your diplomacy. However, most other countries will then see how effective and easy this technology is, causing havock for the current world order.
If you don't, you will subject the American people and the world to a combination of nuclear and conventional blackmail that might not be effective in the end.
What do you do?
The parameters in the following primer can be used to help form your opinion...
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