OFF WORLD U.S. MILITARY BASES

In the summer of 1959 the Pentagon issued Qualitative Operational Requirements for a series of space weapons systems. One of those requirements, a military base on the moon was considered essential and nuclear energy was key to realizing this vision. Nuclear Thermal Rockets (NTR) lowered the cost to field such a system by several orders of magnitude. NTR's lower the cost of putting a pound of payload into orbit from 10's of thousands of dollars to 100 dollars. The rationale for building off world bases is that it best insures survival of the nation's command and control in the event of a nuclear war. So the defense of the nation is insured. Off world bases allow for getting around the treaty regimes governing things like weapons testing. The Moon, Mars or one of Jupiter's moons would be great places to secretly test weapons while earth based enemy nations are prevented from testing due to treaty limitations. 

In recently released declassified documents, it was revealed that in 1959 the Pentagon thought that the need for a moon base was so vital that it called for a Top Secret, highly classified, Manhattan style project to make it happen. The nuclear aerospace program NEPA followed on immediately after World War 2. It was a continuation of research that began during the War. So the fact of the matter is the Manhattan Project never really ended and continues till this day with the experimental results shrouded in the legal cloak of  the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 known in the industry as "Born Secret." 

Changing the game of nuclear war. 

This changes the game of nuclear war into a game where if America controlled space and the Soviets managed to take out targets in the continental United States in a surprise attack. They would have to deal with an attack from space. There is no mutually assured destruction, if you control space. Both sides are not deterred from war. 

The strategy is straightforward. 

The American Military put its command and control off world. America puts up stealth weapons satellites and detection systems into orbit. This is a perimeter defense in orbit around the earth. When enemy nations try to put up their system. American space forces shoot them down preventing parity. This effectively bottles up the enemy on the ground. 

The Apollo Program was still active in 2002. 

In 2002 an Apollo S-IVB orbited the earth for the buildup and duration of the American Invasion of Iraq, leaving about a month after George Bush declared Mission Accomplished. This S-IVB was called J002E3 and was mentioned in numerous newspapers. It shows that the world was considerably closer to nuclear war than was mentioned in the media at the time. J002E3 shows that the Apollos had nuclear 3rd stages. It also shows that 9-11 was not an inside job and it was not Bin Laden. 9-11 was an attack by Russia on the United States. It was retaliation for what was going in Chechnya, the expansion of NATO and the deaths of millions of Russians that died in the capitalist reforms. 

Because it would not have to carry liquid oxygen a NERVA S-IVB could carry an additional 121,193 lbs of payload, assuming a 900 ISP. The command module and lunar lander weighed 96,589 lbs. The S-IVB had the space to be a manned module onto itself. The S-IVB was the basis for America's first public space station Skylab. The J002E3 is a Skylab with a nuclear rocket engine.  

ORION space ships use the solar system in the same way nuclear submarines use the ocean. 

The Hubble Space Telescope weighing about 24,500 pounds is reportedly just a Keyhole satellite pointed toward the stars and the Keyhole satellites are armed with lasers. The cost to place it into orbit using NTR's is $2,450,000. It would take about 20 Space Based Lasers to begin providing missile defense. Meaning it would cost 49 million dollars to transport the system into orbit. 

The cost to lift this Mars Mission into orbit using NTR's is 500 Million Dollars. 

SUITCASE NUKES 

Soviet moves during the Cold War show that the American Military succeeded in their space warfare aims. Soviet moves were defensive in nature and were what one would expect given the circumstances. The Soviets needed to gain parity with the United States. The suitcase nuclear weapon is a system designed to give the Soviets a surprise attack capability of their own. It was a response to American surprise attack capabilities. The Soviet defector Stanislav Lunev, in the 1990's, claimed that these weapons were forward deployed within the United States. He was reportedly helping the FBI find these cached weapons. The story goes dark after that. The post-Cold War moves of Russia, scuttling their submarine fleet, letting their early warning satellites die, and selling off their fissile materials, suggest that it has been more or less conquered by the American Ruling Class. Undoubtedly because they lost the battle in space and the Gehlen spy network of moles in the Soviet government. Gehlen's network of stay behinds also played a role in Chechnya and Ukraine.