The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

by George Friedman

The battle of High Noon was fought in New Mexico, which was also the home of the greatest scientific battle, the development of the atomic bomb. The lonely deserts and towns of New Mexico were the places where the atomic bomb was designed, assembled, and tested. It was the place where the university met the military. The scientists, like Kane, gave everything to confront and destroy the evil that was stalking the earth. Ever since the Manhattan Project built the bomb in New Mexico, the military has been obsessed with basic science and with the scientist. In their work, scientists laid the ground for defeating the enemy and building American power beyond what was dreamed. New Mexico was a vast and empty space, in the part of the American West where wood, water, and people were hard to come by. It was a place where things could be hidden out in the open.