Live Another Day
High Frontier
By Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
14 Nov, 2024
Big Hair, Big Guns!
Lt. General1 Daniel O. Graham’s 1983 High Frontier is a substantially expanded version of his 1982 High Frontier. Graham’s book shares a title with Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier; they differ in that O’Neill was interested in the civilian uses of space, whereas Graham’s topic is the military use of space. More specifically, ballistic missile defense or BMD. You may be more familiar with his proposal as the Strategic Defense Initiative (as its fans called it) or Star Wars (as its detractors called it).
Is there an alternative to Mutually Assured Destruction that does not involve capitulating to Communist Russia? Graham believes that there is.