Ed Mitchell vs nuclear proliferation in North Korea

Because I might appear in written or broadcast interviews later this year, I want to share with you why I think I have something to add about North Korea becoming a nuclear-missile power.

Reason 1:  I had a military and R&D career before becoming a fiction author. That career included serving two tours of duty in South Korea where I did guard the DMZ. Later I worked in the U.S. Army’s Strategic Defense Command helping prototype today’s launch command center in Alaska; followed by being a Space-Ground Combat analyst in Joint Space Command. After becoming a civilian I paid my mortgage by worked two decades on National Missile Defense. Part of that time included hands-on and live-fire testing of prototype kill vehicles when I was a payload integration manager in Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems Division.

Reason 2:  It’s common for fiction authors to write about future events that initially seem farfetched but later turn out to be very close to reality. That’s exactly what I did by writing Gold Fire released as a physical book a few years ago and released this month as an ebook. The story is about terrorists, trained as well as U.S generals, who threaten to attack America with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. That scenario forces our military to scramble to deploy advanced anti-missile units to cover weaknesses in our defense. Recent news headlines seem to prove the fiction scenario is becoming a real one.

Reason 3:  Mainly, I’m stepping up because during the last year print, radio, and TV debate on the issue has not served the American people well. The chatter has been mostly focused on the attack or defense missiles. It has NOT been about why would or should the U.S. be willing to fight over preventing North Korea from having small warheads on ballistic missiles. The debate has NOT surfaced the long-range national security implications of having an adversary who might sell ballistic missile technology to Iran and lightweight nuclear packages to terrorists. Nor has the debate revealed that nuclear proliferation has moved from proliferating missiles to proliferation lightweight nuclear packages. Another way of saying this is… Would you like to live in a world where terrorists have lightweight nuclear bombs? Or… Do you like living in a world where U.S. military operations might trigger the North Koreans to launch a ballistic missile at the U.S.?

So before I get grilled on late-night radio, please share your thoughts with me here by leaving a reply or on my Social Media.

From: Author Ed Mitchell
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