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Admiral Rickover and the Nuclear Navy FUSION July-August 1985 Admiral Rickover and the Nuclear Navy 'Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish' A TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION ON EARTH The FUSION ENERGY FOUNDATION is making it happen! JOIN James E. Stoots, Jr./Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Carol White Managing Editor Marjorie Mazel Hecht FUSION Fusion Technology Editor Charles B. Stevens Vol. 7, No. 4 July-August 1985 Washington Editor Marsha Freeman Energy Editor William Engdahl Books Editor Features David Cherry Art Director 8 Rickover and the Nuclear Navy Alan Yue Robert Zubrin Photo Editor 'Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish' Carlos de Hoyos Advertising Manager 17 THE ECONOMICS OF GROWTH Joseph Cohen (703) 689-2496 This special report presents the next stage in the development of Circulation and Subscription Manager the LaRouche-Riemann economic model, with particular Dianne Oliver emphasis on the role of advanced technology. (703) 777-6055 18 Wassily Leontief Acts to Block Effective Implementation of the SDI Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. FUSION (ISSN 0148-0537) is published 6 times a year every other month, by the Fusion Energy Lyndon LaRouche discusses the shortcomings of so-called Foundation, 101016th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. economists today. 20036. Tel. (703) 689-2490. Dedicated to providing accurate and comprehensive information on ad­ 28 A Primer on Hyperbolic Functions vanced energy technologies and policies, FUSION is committed to restoring American scientific and Jonathan Tennenbaum technological leadership. FUSION coverage of the frontiers of science focuses on the self-developing A geometrical model for the development of man and the universe qualities of the physical universe in such areas as that demonstrates how the biosphere declines unless there is an plasma physics—the basis for fusion power—as well as biology and microphysics. and includes increasing rate of man's technological advances. ground-breaking studies ot the historical devel­ opment of science and technology. 36 The Iron Industry (1700-1985): The views of the FEF are stated in the editorials. A Model of Economic Growth—and Decline Opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily those of the FEF directors or advisory board. Robert Gallagher The data on the growth of the iron industry, presented here Subscriptions by mail are $20 for 6 issues or $38 tor 12 issues in the USA; $25 tor 6 issues in geometrically, offer a paradigm for the modeling of an entire Canada. Airmail subscriptions to other countries are $40 for 6 issues. economy. Address all correspondence to FUSION, P.O. 41 The Application of Hyperbolic Geometry Box 17149, Washington, D.C. 20041-0149. To Kepler's Model of the Universe Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Carol White Postmaster: Send address changes to FUSION, Kepler's method was entirely geometrical, and therefore is P.O. Box 17149, Washington, D.C. 20041-0149. completely compatible with the most advanced modern physics. 44 The X-ray Laser: A Revolution in Beam Defense and the Laboratory Charles B. Stevens The thermonuclear-powered X-ray laser is one of the beam defenses that could be deployed within three years. Copyright © 1985 53 India's Space Program—Boosting Industry Fusion Energy Foundation Ramtanu Maitra Printed in the USA All Rights Reserved In the past 20years, India has developed an indigenous space program that is building and launching spacecraft as well as stimulating the ISSN 0148-0537 USPS 437-370 economy with spinoff technologies. Onthecover: The U.S.S. Phoenix, courtesy of News the U.S. Navy; cover design by Virginia Baier. 60 THE YOUNG SCIENTIST More Energy, More People; Why Solar Energy Won't Work Departments 2 EDITORIAL i! THE LIGHTNING ROD 4 VIEWPOINT 6 NEWS BRIEFS Editorial No More Appeasement As we go to press, the President's Strategic Defense Ini­ treated his appeasers, with contempt. tiative (SDl) is under full-scale attack by the Soviet Union In the past, the Soviets had stressed that only the "testing and its U.S. allies. At Geneva, the Soviets are now demand­ and deployment" of SDl systems must be ruled out. But ing that the United States drop all research on beam weap­ now that a bipartisan congressional decision has been made ons, or they will go on a massive arms buildup. Here at to de facto reduce next year's military budget below this home, Soviet allies in Congress are using every pretext to year's, the Soviets have been emboldened to step up their reduce the President's military budget—and with it the Stra­ threats. tegic Defense Initiative—to impotence. On May 29, Soviet chief negotiator Viktor Karpov de­ The current fight to save the SDl takes place in the context clared that "renunciation of the development, including of the reelection of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papan- research, testing, and deployment, of space arms would dreou. This self-avowed friend of the Soviet Union has been open the way to radical reduction in nuclear arms." Further, emboldened to give the United States an ultimatum: All he warned that continuing SDl research in the United States NATO bases must be removed from Greece by the year would "sharply reduce chances of reaching an agreement 1988. on disarmament issues." It should be clear to any thinking patriot, that our nation is in grave danger of being led down the path of Munich— A KGB Congress this time with the United States in the role of the British Here at home, Soviet demands are openly supported by appeasers of Hitler. However, there is no U.S. industrial liberal congressmen and senators, who admit that their giant in the wings to bail us out now, as we bailed out the purpose in whittling away the defense budget is to prevent British then. Thus the Soviets are treating us just as Hitler the President from "challenging" the Soviets. Worse than 2 July-August 1985 FUSION Editorial weapons along the lines of—but far more massive than— the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Project, or Admiral Rick- over's creation of the Nuclear Navy, Aspin proposes yet another feasibility study, with reduced funds to match the reduced goal. And he poses as a friend of the SDI! This is the same game that Aspin played with the MX missile. At that time, he posed as the one man who could engineer a compromise between the out-and-out foes of the MX and the Reagan administration. As a result of his negotiating sessions, the administration found itself ac­ cepting deeper and deeper cuts in the program. Now the President has agreed to let Congress cut the overall pro­ gram in half, and make a 75 percent reduction in production funds in 1986. The best estimate we now have projects the year 1988, as the time when the Soviets will feel sufficiently secure to strike. By that time, the Soviets calculate, the U.S. economy will have disintegrated to the point that the United States no longer has an in-depth war mobilization potential. At the same time, the Soviets estimate that they will be able to use their assets within the U.S. government, from Henry Kissinger down to the Les Aspins, to sabotage any serious development of the SDI. The Soviets Can Be Stopped The Soviets can be stopped, but only if we begin now to put all of our resources into developing the SDI, as part of an overall military buildup. We must stop appeasing the Soviets. Concessions, like that by Geneva arms negotiator Paul Nitze, must be immediately reversed. Nitze told an audi­ ence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Internation­ al Studies May 30, that the American SDI effort will be re­ stricted to pure research, and that development, testing, and deployment are out of the question. Appeasement means the defeat of the United States— and therefore Western civilization—by the Soviets. We can­ not defend ourselves by mere bluff, however; we must begin a crash program to develop beam weapon and allied technologies now. This means a budget of about $5 billion these openly pro-Soviet liberals, are the supposed conser­ for funding the SDI itself, and an equivalent amount of vative supporters of a strong defense (like House Armed credits to industry directly involved in the program, to de­ Services Committee chairman Les Aspin) who are using velop the industrial base without which the SDI cannot their credibility with conservatives to undercut the Presi­ succeed as an actual defense system. In all, we need a dent at every turn. Although a Democrat, Aspin has always military buildup, focused on the Strategic Defense Initia­ come forward as a supporter of the MX missile and for a tive, on the order of $400 to $500 billion a year. strong defense—with one slight proviso: he fully supports Can we afford it? The answer is "no" only for those who a freeze in the military budget. have already determined to concede to the Soviets without Now he has announced a six-point Democratic Program a fight, or for those who are so stupid that they do not for fiscal year 1986 that will bind the United States to the realize that we are giving the Soviets an overwhelming war- SALT II agreement, despite Soviet violations; replace the winning advantage by willfully destroying U.S. war-waging MX missile with the Minuteman; ban testing of U.S. anti- capabilities. And is any price too costly for the purpose of satellite weapons; preserve the ABM treaty; and, last but saving Western civilization? not least, severely reduce the SDI budget. Fortunately, we can "afford" it. A crash program for mil­ At a time when every informed source agrees not only itary buildup will put U.S.
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