What happened to KMS Fusion and why? How the story begins...

On Deception Watch

 Preface

     This is a work of fiction. The science described here is accurate and either already demonstrated or is considered by experts to be plausible. The characters are mostly fictional. However, the character, Arthur J. Cranshaw, is modeled after the late Keeve M. ("Kip") Siegel, a professor of Physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and successful entrepreneur. He was the founder of KMS Fusion, the first and only private sector company to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion using laser implosion technology. In 1974, to the embarrassment of federal government laboratories, on May 1, May 3, and again on May 9, KMS Fusion achieved the world’s only successful laser-induced nuclear fusion ignition. The fictitious company, AJC Fusion, is modeled after KMS Fusion.

     Professor Siegel died on March 14, 1975 under mysterious circumstances while testifying before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. He was testifying about government obstruction of his company’s (successful) research efforts. With his death the property rights of KMS Fusion were essentially looted by the federal government and its race to achieving controlled nuclear fusion was fatally crippled. No laboratory has yet achieved what KMS Fusion achieved in 1974.

    The rest of the story is the plausible prediction of how The World Federation might come to be.