00000nam##2200000#a#4500169502SLIM2120200304113400.0200304s 0000 00eng dBuono, StephenThis Grim GameKennedy and Arms Control for Outer SpaceBuono, StephenDiplomatic History Vol. 43, No.5; Nov 2019: p.840–866Shortly after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. physicist Louis Ridenour penned a short play for Fortune magazine detailing how a future nuclear war might start. “Pilot Lights of the Apocalypse” opens in an underground command center beneath San Francisco, where a small group of high-ranking military officials give the U.S. president a tour of the facility. The commanding general explains that there are over 5,000 bomb-equipped satellites in orbit above the earth, owned by a host of different countries, ready to strike enemy cities in the event of major hostilities. Because such a strike would descend from outer space, however, determining from where an attack originated is impossible. The command staff must therefore rely on “political” data—an ever-shifting list of political agitators—to determine which enemies might have the greatest motivation to initiate a war.Outer SpaceGrim GameKennedy and Arms ControlBuono, Stephenhttp://libsrv:8080/medialinks/Journals%20-%20Full%20Text/Diplomatic%20Hisotry/2019/No%205/Stephen%20Buono.pdfFull TextNJENGRM169502DigitalY