Kaiju Agonistes

May, 1961

“We have been challenged twice by dangerous entities from an unknown origin,” says a new president, a younger president, in front of a cheering crowd at Rice University. “And so long as that origin remains unknown we must look for it on every frontier science can open to us. We choose to orbit a permanent military observatory around the earth in this decade, not because it is easy but because it is hard, because it is as much a test of character as an act of necessary self-defense!”