Monday, December 19, 2011

What Did You Predict In The War, Daddy?

People - more than one person - wants to know exactly how "America will win World War III and not even get a scratch."  So, with a caveat, here it goes:
  1. Our nukes go "boom."
  2. Their nukes go "pfft."
How would we arrange this happy (?) state of affairs?  Easy.  Since 1996, none of the great powers has tested a nuclear weapon by actually setting it off.  No - it's all done with simulations, running on supercomputers.  If we could trick our advasaries into making mistakes with their simulations, we could neuter them.

It's a risky plan, but it has precedent - the US did something similar with pipeline control software back in the 80s.

Another weird aspect of this theory is that the only countries, besides us, who would have working nukes, are the Pakistanis and the North Koreans - who never signed the Test Ban treaty, and actually DO set off H-bombs once in awhile.

I've had grave misgivings about this post.  I have NO access to classified information of any kind - this is the ranting of a disturbed mind.   But predictions - even wacky ones - can sometimes come true.  England's last "Witch Trial" happened during World War II; the "witch," Helen Duncan, had "prophesied" the sinking of the British battleship Barham - which had actually already happened! 

One of the best books about the experience of studying Fortean phenomena is "The Mothman Prophecies," by John Keel.  Keel's message is clear: when you think about weird stuff, weird stuff thinks about you.

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