What follows may seem long and boring and mostly not having much to do with you. It's Senators Lugar and Bayh and their staff, you may think, who are having to handle irradiated mail. But sometimes one must think of the big picture. And it's necessary, moreover, for me to give you and others an opportunity to respond to what I'm saying--as a matter of fairness. If don't receive any comments, I'll be free to write on the basis of my existing beliefs and ideas--even if they are badly mistaken.
Governor Kernan has told Hoosiers how he was held captive by the North Vietnamese for eleven months. My tale, also a true story, is that I was held captive by my fellow countrymen for twenty years or so.
However, during that time I was fortunate in proving to be an effective PR person for Dr. Peter Glaser. Glaser's work was featured as part of a CBS Simon & Simon episode ("The Wrong Stuff") in 1984. That episode wouldn't have been produced without my PR efforts. Through the grace of God, that TV episode kept Glaser's ideas in the international science arena, even though by then they'd been disowned by the U.S. government.
In 1987 the Soviets felt compelled to match Glaser's work and launched their Energia rocket to carry a Soviet version of Glaser's Satellite Solar Power into orbit. That was their "second Sputnik;" and, more than the US "Star Wars," it helped to resolve the Cold War.
The Energia story was on the front page of the New York Times (6/14/87).
The reference may be viewed by clicking this line. Depending on your computer capability, you may be able to view the actual story:
That story isn't being retold much by the mass media now. Perhaps that's partly because it makes NBC News and the U.S. government look bad. ...
Today Glaser's work is still important because it may be the only way to stop global warming.
It could help Indiana economically.
While my role in those events was modest, I'm not making this information up. I received a letter from Glaser thanking me for my support of his work. You may view that letter by clicking below. http://www.geocities.com/gahnsd/GLASER.gif
So I feel that I'm entitled to take as much satisfaction from what I was able to do during the Cold War as does Gov. Kernan. Unfortunately, though, I haven't been given a whole lot of credit. And, possibly as a result of that lack of credit, Senators Lugar and Bayh may not regard me as a reliable source of science information. My web site has an article on the hazards of irradiated mail. The two senators and their staffs must handle such mail. But they don't seem to regard my warnings as plausible.
One reason for that is that during the time I was doing PR for Glaser, I had a problem of being the object of continuous demeaning, abusive treatment. My tormentors were those in the mass media and other big companies. Sometimes I was kept awake all night. Sometimes I was harangued. Sometimes there was an effort to humiliate me sexually.
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