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March 17, 2025 โ€ข 11 mins

In this special edition of The Whitepaper, host Nicolin Decker reveals how The Economic Bomb was never just a dissertation โ€” it was the ignition point for an entirely new genre:

Strategic Fiction.

Built over two years, The Economic Bomb began as a formal thesis on U.S. financial system vulnerabilities, cyber-physical infiltration, and asymmetric economic warfare. But to make the model accessible to civilians โ€” without tripping classified thresholds โ€” it became something more.

A novel.

๐Ÿ“˜ Strategic Fiction is a new narrative form that embeds real continuity simulations, intelligence-grade scenario modeling, and COOP/COG doctrine inside a fictional wrapper. It's designed not to incite, but to inform. Not to dramatize, but to prepare.

Why turn a thesis into a thriller? Because fiction reaches the people policy papers never will. Because metaphor carries what memos canโ€™t. Because signal โ€” when buried in story โ€” becomes memory.

In this episode:

  • ๐Ÿ“– The Economic Bomb novel is unpacked: a Red Team scenario based on real-world signals and documented federal blind spots.
  • ๐Ÿ” Real adversary playbooks are traced: โ†’ The 2016 Bangladesh Bank Heist โ†’ Operation Ababil โ†’ The 2010 Flash Crash โ†’ Starfish Prime โ†’ The 2023 PLA maneuvers โ†’ The 2019 Saudi Aramco strikes
  • ๐Ÿง  The book builds on the same threat models used by government agencies โ€” and translates them into a continuity test readable by civilians.
  • โš ๏ธ Fiction becomes a lawful simulation when it uses selector-neutral structure, open-source modeling, and doctrinal discipline.

What happens when the next 9/11 isnโ€™t kinetic โ€” but economic? When the grid, the markets, and the public trust are the targets?

This episode doesnโ€™t just ask that question. It simulates the answer โ€” in narrative form.

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธThe Economic Bomb is the novel that detonated the first civilian-authored Tier-1 Continuity Simulation. [BUY NOW!]

๐Ÿ”— This episode links directly to The Tier-1 Convergence Doctrine โ€” marking the first Strategic Fiction novel formally recognized as a continuity-grade civilian simulation. [Click Here]

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