Closed dlcarmean closed 2 years ago
Hi David, Thanks for reaching out. I will do my best to try and respond to your questions. First of all, I'm a former nuclear war planner, intelligence analyst, and weapons designer. I spent my career focusing on adversary targets but was alway curious about "What would/could they do to us?" The US used to have a project called the Red Integrated Strategic Operational Plan (RISOP) that we would game against the US nuclear war plan (Single Integrated Operational Plan; SIOP). Back in the early-2000s, the US Department of Defense started pulling resources away from the RISOP to instead focus on the "Global War on Terror". I left that work in 2010, but always wondered about what the targets were here, so I started building the target database. At first it was an ad hoc process, but when the Department of Homeland Security GIS data under the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) program, data collection became easer, but data analyses (especially nodal analysis) became more of the issue.
I'm happy to try and answer any other questions and welcome any suggestions that you might have. Feel free to check out my bona fides on either LinkedIn or Twitter. Also, in the future, please contact me at david@davidteterconsulting.com instead of this channel (so that I see it).
Cheers, David
Ha. OK. I really like arguing, not to win, but to get others ideas that challenge me. That's all that post was. The problem with social media is that it's both filled with idiots and extremely knowledgable folks. That said, as painful as it is to engage with the "idiots", many of these folks have very good questions and opinions. Nuclear war is not about facts. It's just weird.
I did post a target graphic for Vandenberg SFB: https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP/blob/main/TARGET%20GRAPHICS/OPEN-RISOP%200.92%2020220224%20MAXIMUM%20COLLATERAL%20DAMAGE%20ATTACK/0.92%20MAX%20DAMAGE%20ATTACK%20CA_VANDENBURG%20SFB.png
That said, it's kind of generic. Despite all of the clearances that I held (past tense), a lot of the space shit is "ultra uber classified". Even holding some of those clearances, I have no idea of what really is going on. But that's just part of the game.
Once again, I will try and answer what I can and tell you if I cannot, but please use the email address that I sent you.
Thanks, David
Why is Fordham college a target but not Yeshiva University?(in the Soviet plans to destroy US institutions of higher education)
I'm trying to explore this data, and my first pass at trying to load it into a relational database (sqlite) is failing due to duplicate lat/long values. This brings me to a few questions:
1: are you using any DBMS back-end, or no? Do you intend to at some point?
2: what tools and/or code are you using to process this and render graphics, and build the KML?
3: Can you say anything about the provenance of the target site data?
Thanks.