Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 27, 2012

Shortly after the Soviets lunched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the U.S. government seriously considered a nuclear strike against the Moon in order to intimidate Russia.  A missile carrying an atom bomb would have been launched from an undisclosed location and then detonated on impact. The project involved some of the top scientists in the field ? including the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who at the time was a young graduate student. Preparations were made for a missile launch in 1959, but the program was quietly scrapped.

What is truly strange is that the plan to nuke the moon was supposedly inspired by the need to catch up with the Soviets in the space race. Yet there?s evidence that Washington actually spotted Moscow a lead by allowing the Russians to launch the first satellite. According to General James Garvin of the Army?s Research and Development arm, the U.S. had the ability to launch and orbit a satellite no later than 1956 ? but were forbidden to do so until after the Soviets had sent Sputnik aloft.

It often seems as if global politics is nothing more than a bad melodrama ? and the people in charge of the Military-Industrial Complex are determined to validate every comic book supervillain cliche.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.