As a historian and the most published author in Alaska on the subject of Alaska’s participation in the (SDI) Strategic Defense Initiative in the early 1980s, I am in a unique position to have the in-depth knowledge for advocating SDI technologies as a feature in creating the Alaska State Bank.

In 1962, with the publication of the book Military Strategy, Marshal Sokolovsky identified a potential cooperative relationship between the then Soviet Union and the United States. His plan was to use “new physical principles” to make nuclear-tipped missiles impotent and obsolete.

In March of 1983, President Reagan made a national speech that used the same wording as Marshal Sokolovsky, thus launching the SDI that became known as the Star Wars program.

From the very beginning a policy conflict developed between two (NGOs) non-governmental organizations. On one side was (EIR) Executive Intelligence Research and on the other side (CFR) Council on Foreign Relations.

The CFR policy was publicly promoted by General Danial Gram that was marketed as “High Frontier” and did not prioritize “new physical principles.” Archaic technology was to be used in an attempt to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles and transformative technologies were to be restricted to protect the income flows of existing modes of production.

The EIR policy rejected these restrictions on technology and promoted “new physical principles” and transformative technologies. In Alaska, this policy was identified with Dr. Robert Moon of the University of Chicago and identified the goal of using the SDI as an industrial science policy that increased the total wealth of humanity, thus challenging some of the root causes of war.

Alaska’s role was to ramp up minerals development across the state and use the Star Wars related technology of plasma processing for primary reduction of strategic minerals, the production of strategic materials, and the development of clean fuels industries in Alaska.

The operative question is whether the current administrators of the missile defense system understand the historical conflict within the NGO community and will help promote advanced industrial science in Alaska. Will they help bring plasma processing to the State of Alaska?

The key point is that the financial credit creation of a new public bank in Alaska must project labor productivity using modern technologies if new technological divisions of labor are to be advanced. Rejecting the use of modern technology will lead to lower productivity, loss of future jobs, and cost push inflation over the long run.

I am not justifying, and strongly reject, the perpetual warfare doctrine of what President Eisenhower called the “military industrial complex” but I do understand why the basic physics in both the civilian economy and military preparedness are inseparable.

Understanding the biblical beating of “swards into plowshares” is necessary for considering technological economics. Modern technologies can be used to more efficiently project military power, and or to improve the environment or human lives, and avert the root causes of war.
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If we are to have a higher standard of living, a dynamic and stable financial system, and a healthy natural environment, basic principles of science and engineering must be considered and promoted.

My role now is to advocate for creating the Alaska State Bank so advanced technologies can help create a positive future where war is less likely, infrastructure is new, high paying jobs are plentiful, education is affordable, and science lays the foundation for a brighter future.