Unpack “The Silver Strand Hypothesis,” a radical thought experiment drawn from the EpiWar™ project, examining the nuclear age not as a technical reality, but as an empire of secrecy. Discover the fictional 1943 memorandum, “Strategic Equilibrium under Atomic Impossibility,” which posits that deliverable atomic weapons never existed, and that global deterrence functions perfectly through the management of belief.
Learn how power rests in the architecture of secrecy, using classification and compartmentalization to mobilize economies and guide adversaries toward restraint. This video reframes historical events — such as the Rosenberg trial as a ritual act validating the myth of “atomic secrets” and the Cuban Missile Crisis as a symmetrical dance of fear governed by perception management. Understand how this strategic structure, founded on unverifiable capability, continues today through code, data, AI, surveillance, and AGI. The model asserts that control over knowledge can equal control of force, making the illusion the enduring political reality.
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* Do You Know the Difference between Liberty and Freedom?
* The Power Structure of the World
* A User’s Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Defense
Podcast (Audio & Video Content)
* Palmerston’s Zoo Episode 01 - Solving the Paradox of Current World History (9 Episodes)
* Oligarchic Control from the Renaissance to the Information Age
* The Grand Design of the 20th Century
* Bots React to Neurolinguistic Defense
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