During the 1980s I skipped past the media (that despised and ridiculed it) and past any pathetic attempt that I could make to understand the science, and I studied the Soviet reaction to it, to decide if it was plausible.
The Russians were frantic over it, absolutely and completely frantic and raging over it, they seemed to see it as sure defeat, and so I accepted their science knowledge and their determination for it’s chances of success.
I see the resident slanderer has shown up.