“What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again. And that was the strategy that was being used to educate the

“What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again. And that was the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers, and the scare tactics, the spin that was being put on the weapons system. And that was how we identify an enemy. The enemy at first, he said, the enemy against whom we’re going to build a space-based weapons system. First, the Russians are going to be considered the enemy, then terrorists would be identified and that was soon to follow. Then we were going to identify third world crazies, we now call them nations of concern. The next enemy was asteroids [and] against asteroids we’re going to build space-based weapons. “And the funniest one of all, was against what he called aliens, extraterrestrials – that would be the final card. And over, and over, and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring up that last card. ‘And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens’, and all of it, he said, is a lie.” -Werner von Braun to Carol Rosin [0] [0] https://www.texasoutlawwriters.com/the-last-card/ https://www.texasoutlawwriters.com/the-last-card/