Hi, folks! You have found my attic--where I store all the leftover junk from the Fratricide publication process. So pay no attention to this page and go back to the more interesting stuff.
Note: Fratricide is a term that was used to describe the phenomenon of incoming nuclear weapons being destroyed by the fireball of other nuclear weapons already detonated at the same target, a notion that suggests a limit to the throwweight that can be applied to a hardened target in a single locale. Fratricide was used to justify the "clustering" strategy for deployment of the MX missile, an elegantly a posteriori argument in support of MAD (mutually assured destruction), the strength of which is unlikely to be appreciated by any survivors.
The purpose for the title to this microzine is not to summon any kind of cold war or nuclear war theme. Rather, Fratricide is a metaphor for (a) the bumbling of bureaucracies at cross purposes, (b) the general superiority of domestic political warfare over actual national interest, and (c) the frequent cutting off of one's nose to spite one's face that is a daily occurrence in the venue of local, U.S., Western, and global politics.
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