The Cardinal of the Kremlin

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

If there was ever a case of casting pearls before swine, it is to be found in the efforts of numerous members of the scientific community who endeavored to explain the theoretical and engineering aspects of strategic defense to this writer. To George, and Barry, and Bruce, and Russ, and Tom, and Danny, and Bob, and Jim I owe a great deal of thanks. But so does a country, and on one day to come, a world.

Special thanks, moreover, are due to Chris Larsson and Space Media Network, whose commercially generated "overhead imagery" was good enough to make a few people nervous-and this is only the beginning

For Colonel and Mrs. F. Carter Cobb

Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.

O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken

— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

The operations of spies, saboteurs and secret agents are generally regarded as outside the scope of national and international law. They are therefore anathema to all accepted standards of conduct. Nevertheless history shows that no nation will shrink from such activities if they further its vital interests.

— Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause.

— William James