George E. Lowe - Stalking the Antichrists (1965-2012) Volume 2

STALKING THE ANTICHRISTS (1965-2012)
VOLUME 2

GEORGE E. LOWE

Copyright 2013 by George E. Lowe.

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Contents

Introduction to Volume 2 of
Stalking the Antichrists and Their False Nuclear Prophets, Nuclear Gladiators, and Spirit Warriors, 1965-2012 and Beyond

Volume 1 of Stalking the Antichrists and Their False Nuclear Prophets, Nuclear Gladiators, and Spirit Warriors,1940-1965 is essentially an enhanced memoir. It is based for the most part on my personal observations and knowledge and specialized information from my academic studies of history, political science, and literature at Grove City College and the University of Chicago,as well as my professional insights into the heart of the U. S. Navy (1953-1957, 1960-1961[OP-09D]) as an Air Intelligence Officer in Hawaii and Japan and the Pentagon; political-military/counsellor assignments in the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer(FSO-6) at the American embassy in Paris (1962-64); and a speechwriter in the Navy Department (1965).

For the purposes of these two books, my specialized information and observation and knowledge about contemporary history and American history came from living through World War II and the Cold War (1939-2012) and an in-depth study of history at Grove City College (1946-50) and the University of Chicago (1950-53, 1958-1960). Beginning in 1958 I started to prepare for my dissertation on Cold War Navy issuesThe Navy and the Limited War Doctrine, which was changed in early 1960 to The Navy and Deterrents/Deterrence Theoryand was eventually published by Little, Brown as The Age of Deterrence (1964).

In volume 2, the textual narrative begins with the end of my specific actions/activities in the Navy and Foreign Service in July 1965, which I have called How I Lived in History, 1950-1965. In retrospect my entire Navy careerfrom my commissioning as Ensign USNR, 1355 AIO, in early September 1953 at Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island, to my first honorable discharge at Treasure Island on August 27, 1957was in preparation to an understanding of World War II and the Cold War.

I recall excitedly listening on my own little Emerson radio to the beginnings of World War II on a family vacation at Lake Conesus, New York. And I followed the war from its roots in Poland/England and France to Pearl Harbor/Ford Islands Battleship Row to NAS Atsugiwhere General McArthur first touched down in Japan in late August 1945. Atsugi was also the home where the famous U-2 spy planes were based from 1957-60, snapping photos of the bombers and missile bases of the Soviets nuclear deterrents.

These events are related in my The Age of Deterrence (1964), dating from that historic day August 27, 1957, of the first successful Soviet ICBM test. Those Soviet rockets also boosted a beeping Sputnik into Earths orbit on October 4, 1957, and thereby triggered the great Soviet-American arms race from 1957-1991.

Volume 2 follows the evolution of the Doctrine of Deterrence and the related military deterrent weapon systems: bombers (B-29, B-50, B-36, B-47, B-52) and Soviet Bisons, Bears and Missiles (MRBMs, SLBMs, ICBMs); U.S. ICBMs (Atlas Titan, and MM), MRBMs (Jupiter, Thor), and Navy (SLBMs); and their Soviet counterparts (1945-1991).

Volume 2 also traces the evolution of the great meme of Deterrence from the first two A-bombs (fission) dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9, 1945) and the Soviets August 29, 1949, test of their first A-bomb, to the U.S. H-bomb (fusion) tests of November 1, 1952, and March 1, 1954, and the Soviet H-bomb tests of 1952/1953the worlds first droppable H-bomb.

The next crucial phase of Deterrence theory was the development of an invulnerable second strike system, the Polaris deterrent, operational in late 1960. The Soviets missile-firing subs appeared in 1964. Then the doctrine of Mutual Deterrence arrived around 1965when both the United States and USSR had invulnerable second strike deterrents and thus unconquerable forever (Leo Szilard).

With the advent of MIRVED ICBMs/SLBMs (multiple independently targeted warheads) in the 1970 (United States)-1975 (USSR), a new Soviet-American arms race began, which ended with the arrival of nuclear parity by the late 1970sa more stable era? Not necessarily. There was near nuclear war in 1983!

However, the nuclear Crazies of RWR (1981-88) refused to accept the nuclear stalemate/parity and threatened the Soviets with improved new targeting: decapitation weapons like 1980-83[Pershing 11/SDI-Star Wars and related Doctrine [Evil Empire/Mutual Assured Survival [ MAS ] vice, MAD [Mutual Assured Destruction and the KAL-007 Incident). Nuclear war threatened in 1983: Pershing IIs in Germany and the KAL-007 incident, shoot-down near Sakhalin on September 1, 1983, of a Korean jet airliner killing all 269 passengers.

Thus threatened by RWR and his nuclear Crazies, Soviet Premiere Andropov ordered the acceleration of the Soviet Doomsday Machine, which went operational on New Years Day 1985three weeks before RWRs great landslide victory celebrations of January 20, 1985.

In Reagans second term, the United States and Russia began getting serious with real reductions in nuclear warheads, beginning in 1987 with the INF-MRBMs declines in Europe and followed by the START and MIRVED ICBM warhead decreases (from 20,000 warheads in the 1990s to around 2,000 today and dropping to 1,550 under the START Treaty of 2010) (Kaplan, Time , September 25, 2010).

And that , dear friends of the Green Vital Center is the challenge faced by the presidential candidates in shaping the national security issues centering around the very illusive, deceptive, and confusing doctrine of that great meme of nuclear deterrents and deterrence.

It is my hope that these two volumes of Stalking the Antichrists will help the American people understand the Great Invulnerable Nuclear Deterrent and the Doomsday Machines actual (Russian) and virtual ( American, SIOP)which continue to deter a secular World War III or prevent a religious Armageddon.

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(See my personal evaluations of all presidents since FDR
in Part IX of volume 1)

After leaving the Pentagon for the last time in May 1965, I had only few regrets and fear that LBJ was going to expand the Vietnam adventure into a full-scale Limited War on the Asian mainlandagain. Hence, I decided to write about what I had discovered in the first half of 1965that is, during Operation Rolling Thunder. While in the Pentagon in early 1965, I looked up some of my old Navy friends/acquaintances. One of them told me a startling fact: the U.S. Destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were never fired on by the North Vietnamese. In fact, he told me, that William Bundy in McNamaras office was heading a team that was trying to create an incident so that LBJ could use it as a justification for expanding bombing, which was eventually called Operation Rolling Thunder (February-May 1965).

So I decided to gather materials for a new book, Hawks, Doves, and Others(Owls), which I began in the fall of 1965 and continued writing it until I was hired by the U.S. Office of Education as an information and reports officer (August 1966), thanks to the State Departments placement office for FSOs.

I never finished the book but gave a draft copy to B__ on Senator Fulbrights Foreign Relations Staff. B__ said my new Intel regarding no North Korean firing on the U.S. DDs in the Gulf of Tonkin was very interesting and damning. If true, there was no basis for the Congressional August Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or any vindication for LBJs retaliatory air strikes versus North Vietnam during the 1964 election campaign against General Goldwater. And there was no justification for Operation Rolling Thunder either.