Page 5 - The Perpetrations of Captain Kaga

Foreword

Knowing the climate of opinion prevailing in those countries, one
can state that widespread alarm would not ordinarily have been
conducive to the consolidation of Earth’s armed forces into one
multi-national entity. But Waderski’s carefully timed and placed
proclamations and predictions finally took effect, not long before a
supposed deadline to meet the external threat arrived.
Under the banner of the United Nations, a previously feeble forum
for diplomatic oratory, the stockpiles of fission and fusion bombs
were mobilized. Missiles were launched day and night for a week at
the computed positons of the rapidly closing invaders; none of them
could be seen directly, for they kept themselves shielded by the solar
disk.
The result, of course, was the disposal of every nuclear weapon
into the sun. The rigged reports were of success after success: Earth
had totally destroyed the enemy. It was not until a century later that
local measurements of background radiation in the alleged
battlespace revealed the absence of any nuclear explosions.
In the period of celebration following the victory, the now unified
world military moved swiftly and quietly to entrench its position.
Waderski probably foresaw the psychological reaction resulting from
an overnight loss of absolute national sovereignty. Once again his
organs of publicity went into action, promoting the benefits of
international citizenship and the end of the danger of mutual
annihilation. Despite a few riots, the new order prevailed.
National borders were frozen and all pending disputes terminated
rapidly by the UN forces. An elaborate cybernetic model of the
planet’s economy was created, easing the transition to global
management of resources and production. And, as Waderski had
intended, biomedical research soon began advancing at an accelerated
pace, owing to the dissolution of political boundaries and the
increased allotment of funds.
Cancer of all types was eliminated from the roster of human
scourges with the development in 2007 of genetic reprogramming.
Armando Waderski, unfortunately, was buried in 2005, his role in
altering the course of history unknown to all but a handful of persons
unwilling to divulge it.
The twenty-first century is generally characterized as a period of
reconstruction in almost every sphere of earthly affairs. The military
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