The Two Largest Nuclear Powers: Cooperation, or Confrontation? Join EIR News on our YouTube channel today, November 5, at 10am EST/4pm CET for a live interview of the Russian Federation’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, conducted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, editor-in-chief of EIR.
Join EIR News on our YouTube channel today, November 5, at 10am EST for a live interview of the Russian Federation’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, conducted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, editor-in-chief of EIR.
The danger of nuclear extinction war has not abated, as Dr. Ted Postol of MIT showed in his October 24 comments to the International Peace Coalition. Nevertheless, a new paradigm of peace through development is shining through, as reflected in the circulation of the Bering Strait Tunnel project as a solution to the crisis in US-Russia relations, by Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. A representative of the RDIF participated in the October 22 EIR international roundtable discussion on the strategic implications of the Bering Strait Tunnel project, during which program Zepp-LaRouche shared her view:
“[T]he realization of the Bering Strait Tunnel is potentially and very likely the answer as to if we have war or peace. Because, if we get to an agreement between the two largest nuclear powers in the world, to replace confrontation with cooperation which is to the benefit not only of those two countries, but actually of all countries in the world, it can be the game changer which marks the departure from the present extremely dangerous moment in history.”
How does the Russian government view the strategic dynamic? What are the principles of the “polyphonic world order” advocated by Russian President Vladimir Putin? Join the program to learn more.
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Our present phase of history is a time of terrible tension between those promoting war, and those promoting resolution of disputes. Deliberate backing of armed conflict in an age of nuclear weapons is insane. But there are growing forces of reason and hope.
Pope Leo XIV’s raising, on Oct. 25, the breakthrough concepts of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) is an important advance for forces seeking peace. Cusa’s concept of seeking and proceeding on the higher level of overcoming differences has repeatedly been studied, reported, and advocated by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche over decades. But most particularly, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche formed an activist association in 2020 that she named the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, based on Cusa’s idea of the coincidentia oppositorum (coincidence of opposites), which organization came to be the precursor to the International Peace Coalition, founded in June 2022, at the initiation of Zepp-LaRouche, and now functioning as a critical platform for world dialogue.
At the Vatican on Oct. 27, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban met with Pope Leo. Orban has volunteered for Budapest to be the venue for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Orban posted on X today, “I asked His Holiness to support Hungary’s anti-war efforts. Private audience with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.”
Other figures and associations, likewise acting on the side of humanity, include leaders of the Global Majority, the BRICS, the expanding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and collaborating initiatives. In the Indo- and Asian-Pacific this week, there are signals of this direction. Speaking of amity, on Oct. 26 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the ASEAN-India Summit in Malaysia by video, pointed out that India and the ASEAN 11 nation members, now constitute 25% of the world’s population, and intend to continue to function as friends.
On the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea this week, President Trump reports he will meet with China’s President Xi Jinping. On Oct. 28, President Trump, now in Tokyo, Japan, is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has expressed concern to pursue a foreign policy of stability and peace in the region. This goes against the prevailing Western insistence that China is the enemy.
The most direct threats of warfare continue to come from the Europe-centered “Coalition of the Willing,” directly charging that Russia is the enemy, bent on invading Europe. Add to this the U.S. belligerence in the Western Hemisphere, building up military forces in the Caribbean.
In the last 10 days, military spokesmen in France have called for contingency readiness that could see French forces placed directly in Ukraine. Chief of Staff of the French Army Gen. Pierre Schill told members of the Defense Committee of the National Assembly on Oct. 24: “We will be ready to deploy forces under security guarantees, if necessary—for the benefit of Ukraine.” He stated that 2026 will be the “year of coalitions,” pointing out that upcoming multinational military exercises, “Orion 26,” will test land, air, and naval contingents, wherever they have to go.
In the Caribbean, U.S. military activity and force deployment have escalated, along with homeland propaganda that fighting the dope trade means taking down Venezuela. The guided missile destroyer USS Gravely has now docked in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, within seven miles of Venezuela. The story is that the ship is carrying out training exercises until Oct. 30. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has been ordered to the Caribbean, from its present location in the Mediterranean. There have been nine U.S. airstrikes on boats in international waters in the Caribbean, plus two in the Pacific off the western coast of Central America. At least 43 persons were killed.
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Today the White House released a 20 point program for a ceasefire in Gaza and a way forward whose approval by the United States and Israel were discussed by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, at a joint press briefing at the White House, following their meeting there earlier. The “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” was reportedly then provided to Hamas for their consideration, by envoys of Egypt and Qatar. Within hours, a joint statement was released by six nations in the region, along with Pakistan and Indonesia, thanking the United States and committing to “working on the program.”
President Trump spoke extensively at the press briefing, which did not take questions, thanking these nations, many of whose representatives he met in New York City last week, and others, and ebulliently calling the new program “historic,” and a breakthrough after “thousands of years” of strife. Trump reported how during his talks with Netanyahu this morning, Trump called Qatar’s Prime Minister al Thani, and Netanyahu apologized to him for having bombed his country, an act only “aimed at Hamas,” Netanyahu rationalized.
The main specifics Trump chose to announce were that a “Board of Peace” will be formed to oversee the implementation of the proposed terms, such as demilitarizing Hamas, and Trump will head it, though he demurred that he is very busy. Trump made a point of saying that a member of the Board of Peace will be Tony Blair.
This factoid alone cast a pall on the packed occasion, given that Blair is infamous for his record of lies, direct manipulation of Washington leaders, and causing the deaths of millions of Iraqis and thousands of Americans in Iraq and other wars. Even including the ebullience of President Trump, and the fawning smiles of Netanyahu, the hour-long briefing was a grave occasion, for conspicuously omitting any acknowledgment of the scale of IDF murder and destruction in Gaza—genocide—and the urgency to stop it. Instead, there were real estate developer undertones in Trump’s talk about how the seacoast should never have been given to the Palestinians in the first place. Trump asserts that the Abraham Accords, advanced five years ago, will now have a comeback.
On economic development, there is barely a veneer of a point or two on the topic, with Point 10 opening by saying, “A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East….”
In reality, the starting point in the whole region is that the current population of 450 million, in the 10 nations and Gulf states, from Egypt eastward to Iran, and Yemen northward to Türkiye, must have the means to life, and for generations ahead, which calls for the LaRouche Oasis Plan approach. Each person, in every sovereign nation, deserves the water, the power, the food, the industry, the healthcare, the education, the surroundings for a productive life.
We don’t know what will happen next on this 20-point “Comprehensive Plan,” over the coming hours and days, but any wait-and-see mode of reaction is wrong. We need to organize to spread the reality of the Oasis Plan concept, and variations on it worldwide.
This is the dramatic reality of the direction of the Global Majority now underway. Today was also the last day of the UN General Assembly annual General Debate. There were many messages of demand for truth, peace and development over the past six days, though blacked out from general reporting to the international public. EIR will publish several of them in a review.
For example, among the ringing speeches from Africa, came the words on Sept. 25 of Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. He said: “Ghana has long recognized the state of Palestine and supported a two-state solution to the conflict. Contrary to the claims of some, a two-state solution would not be a reward for Hamas, but rather, a reprieve for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who have been facing collective punishment and forced starvation for no reason other than the fact that they are Palestinian….” He called for an end to the prevarication by the UN General Assembly, and spoke of how Africa is transforming itself to take responsibility for humanity.
There were dozens of bilateral and group meetings in New York in the past 10 days, among the Global Majority, for example, the BRICS foreign ministers on Sept. 26.
Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche today stressed that, “The Global Majority is not silent about what is going on.”
At the same time, there are critical actions in other parts of the world, to end the genocide in Gaza, and also to stop the insane perpetual war stance in Europe, blocking any resolution of the Ukraine conflict. The demonstration in Germany over the weekend was massive. Even more is expected this week in Berlin and elsewhere, for October 3, marking the National Day of Germany.
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“Only direct cooperation with the Arabs can create a dignified and safe life. If the Jews don’t comprehend this, the whole Jewish position in the complex of Arab countries will become, step by step, untenable. What saddens me is less the fact that the Jews are not smart enough to understand this, but rather that they are not just enough to want it.”
So wrote Albert Einstein in the context of the creation of the State of Israel, whose presidency he was offered, and declined.
An emergency summit of the League of Arab States and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation was held on Sept. 15 in response to Israel’s outrageous strikes in Doha, Qatar, targeting the Hamas representatives there to negotiate with their Israeli counterparts. Israel’s strike targeted negotiation itself. The summit issued a final communiqué denouncing the Israeli attack on Qatar, the barbaric destruction of Gaza, settlements in the West Bank, and Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, and calling for international action.
The assembled leaders demanded that the international community act to change Israel’s course. Specifically, they called on all nations “to take all possible legal and effective measures to prevent Israel from continuing its actions” against the Palestinian people, including by supporting efforts to end its impunity, holding it accountable for its violations and crimes, imposing sanctions on it, suspending the supply, transfer, or transit of weapons, ammunition, and military materials—including dual-use items—reviewing diplomatic and economic relations with it, and initiating legal proceedings against it,” as well as suspending Israel from the United Nations.
In Madrid, a crowd of some 100,000 people shut down the final stage of the Tour of Spain bike race. The prime minister voiced his support for the protesters, and called for Israeli teams to be banned from all international competitions, as has happened to Russian teams.
Meanwhile, Moscow persists in warning NATO that it is already at war with Russia, with consequences that could be devastating. The recent drone swarm that entered Poland is seen as a deliberate provocation by those who seek the continuation of the fighting, which is destroying Ukraine.
While Trump may have attempted to extricate himself from the Ukraine conflict by making unfulfillable demands on the Europeans, he is moving deeper toward conflict in the Americas with another strike on a Venezuelan vessel and continues his bellicose statements about Gaza.
What is needed is the success of an international campaign for a new paradigm of economic, cultural and political relations—the campaign waged for decades by the movement founded by Lyndon LaRouche. We need action, and action now!
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The situation in France following the vote of no confidence against French Prime Minister François Bayrou is indicative of the entire Western system. François Bayrou is the fourth (!!) French prime minister to be ousted from office within 20 months. Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings are at 15%, and protests in France are directed against him and/or his austerity policies.
The people of Europe are realizing that they will have to pay with their living standard for the march into war with Russia. The economies are collapsing, while military spending is skyrocketing. The coalition of the brain-dead, as Ray McGovern calls them, which wants to make the population war-ready, does not care in the slightest about the population.
Governments are being replaced, but the underlying problem is not being addressed.
The only way out of the transatlantic breakdown crisis is to cooperate with the New World Economic Order, which is being promoted by the majority of humanity, this was the topic during the recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
All nations can work together based on mutual benefit and jointly work together to develop their economies for the prosperity of all. One step in this direction is to get the United Nations General Assembly to unite for peace and pass UN Resolution 377.
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In a discussion with international collaborators, Helga Zepp-LaRouche described the changed political world situation after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, which took place on August 31 and September 1, 2025, as follows:
“The strategic picture is one of incredible changes going on at the same time and in very different directions. But one thing is certain to say: With the meeting in Tianjin in China with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the world is already changing and has already changed in a way which cannot be undone. What that signifies for sure is that the effort to have a unipolar Western-dominated world in control over the majority of the world population is definitely over. A new system is clearly being established where the attitude of the West to look at this new formation as the enemy is completely suicidal and fatal, and we must correct it. The only way to relate to this emerging new world order is through cooperation. I think that is the absolute message which we have to introduce in every channel of the Western organizing for what can possibly be done.
“What is happening is enormous; it is nothing less than the establishment of a new world economic order based on principles which are in great affinity with what Lyndon LaRouche had been fighting for his whole life, starting with the IDB, the idea of overcoming developing sector under-development and introducing justice in the economic system. That will take an enormous fight to explain to people because by just glancing at the media this morning, they are completely hysterical about the fact that the big three—China, India, and Russia—are now together. And on top of that naturally other SCO members as well. But the verbiage is that the probable war criminal Putin got the red carpet treatment, blah, blah, blah; all of this sort of thing.”
Describing the approach that must be used to win the populations in the Western nations to participate in this historic change and to help their respective countries join this changed world, Zepp-LaRouche said:
“I think by now, everybody has the sense of the incredible potential of this moment. These are the kinds of moments which do not come all the time, and they are the rule of the developments. In 1989, this was such a moment; what we called the star hour of mankind, the historic chance of ’89. This was thoroughly screwed up. That chance remained sort of lingering a little bit afterwards because there was a discussion that Russia could have joined NATO. There are now new documents out that Clinton even considered it at a certain point. Lyndon LaRouche was in the middle of this, if you remember our first trip to Moscow after Lyndon came out of jail. This was the period when this potential clearly existed, and it was sabotaged. So, we should really get this sense across to the people we are talking to, who are all correctly complaining about the suffering of various kinds of poverty, unemployment, other considerations, school violence, drug addiction, suicidal tendencies. This is the moment to really change direction, and I think we must do it with the sense that mankind is the only creative species; that man is gifted with creative reason, and therefore we are not the victims of this or that or some developments we can’t influence. If you have the right historic coalition and constellation of forces, you can, through voluntary action and having the right idea of a plan for the future, one can shape history. I think it is that optimistic sense we must invoke in the people we are organizing so they don’t feel small and think that you can’t do anything anyway, this kind of pessimistic self-conception.”
“So, I think we should go into this with a total explosion of organizing and really demand that people be visible with us in a coalition of voices to say we want to end this geopolitical insanity. We want to have a world where countries are equal partners; our country is one part and not trying to sabotage it. So, I think that is what we should be doing in all countries—European countries, the U.S.—we should talk to all the best contacts and get them on board with this perspective and then take it from there.”
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In an interview with Global Times, Helga Zepp-LaRouche was asked whether China’s Global Civilization Initiative, which Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly emphasized as the only viable solution to the global crisis, offers a new model for the interaction of different cultures in today’s world. Zepp-LaRouche replied that her institute [the Schiller Institute] was founded in 1984 with the same idea, that the world needs a new and just world economic order, but that this can only work if it is combined with the concept of a dialogue amongst all cultures, so that each nation or civilization can learn about the best cultural contributions of all other nations or civilizations. By getting to know the beauty of other cultures, all prejudices and fears would disappear and make way for the joy of discovery and even love. She said that, when she read about the Global Civilization Initiative, she was very happy and confident that this initiative would help make wars obsolete, because when you get to know the best creations of different peoples, it completely changes your perspective. By engaging with the best of other nations, one forms friendships and discovers that all these works of art are based on a human quality which unites us as a species.
Looking at the situation in Gaza, but also at the unchecked urge of European states to further escalate tensions with Russia, it is becoming increasingly clear to more and more people that the future of humanity is at stake and that only such a great civilizational leap forward can ensure the survival of humanity.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which describes itself as a system for improving food security and nutritional analysis for decision-making, already stated on August 22 that famine prevails in the Gaza Strip. Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database shows that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attack on Gaza were civilians, as revealed by research conducted by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian on August 21. And an Israeli attack hit the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, killing more than 20 people. Among the dead are at least four journalists, including freelancers from AP, Al Jazeera, and Reuters.
On Friday last week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche began the 116th meeting of the International Peace Coalition emphasizing the importance of the campaign to activate UNGeneral Assembly Resolution 377 (“Uniting for Peace”) and intervene against the atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank. A person associated with the UN told her that sending blue helmets to the region in accordance with Resolution 377 would have a significant regional and global impact in countering Israel’s atrocities.
Regarding the so-called conflict between Ukraine and Russia, die-hards in the EU are trying to undo the successful summit between President Trump and Putin in Alaska to further prolong and extend the war, which will be fought not only to the “last Ukrainian” but possibly to the last human being. The relevant “heads of state” seem indifferent to the consequences of escalation, remilitarization, progressive economic collapse, and a possible nuclear war.
Following the August 3 surprise arrest in Italy of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of organizing the Nord Stream bombing, a special session of the UN Security Council will meet today, at Russia’s request, to discuss the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.
The chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, supported the request and called for the establishment of an independent investigative committee.
Virtually all serious observers see the arrest as just another attempt to cover up those truly responsible for this act of sabotage, which required intelligence information, sophisticated equipment, and skill. Uncovering the truth about who ordered and carried out the international act of terrorism in September 2022 and who staged the cover-up is central to restoring trust and diplomacy in the world.
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On Monday, Aug. 18, President Donald Trump hosted acting Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and seven European leaders at the White House for a series of meetings on ending the conflict in Ukraine, following up on his Alaska summit last Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a statement following the discussions, Trump reported two primary outcomes of those meetings: 1) moving toward a bilateral meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, followed by a trilateral meeting including President Trump; and 2) discussions of security guarantees for Ukraine, “provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.”
Prior to and during the meeting, those security guarantees were the obsession of the European leaders who had scrambled to Washington to back Ukraine as the last bastion against “the evil Russian invader.” It isn’t known exactly what kind of security guarantees were discussed behind closed doors, and, as with many things, the devil is in the details. While Russia will never accept European and NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine—especially with long-range missile capability—that is exactly what the British have been calling for, and it is quite unlikely that the Coalition of the Willing has so quickly suffered a change of heart.
What is needed for the world is true security, which comes not in preparing for war and deterring the enemy through military might, as heard in the hyperventilating proclamations of the geopolitically minded, warmongering European leaders; the true content of security, and of peace, is development.
This indisputable fact rests upon the authority of natural law: Mankind is a one—a unified species whose fundamental characteristic is creative discovery. The maximum development of the creative capacity of our species across the entire planet is in the best interest of every person in every nation. This principle is enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence as the Leibnizian “pursuit of happiness.”
The shift in the world that began in the Aug. 15 Alaska summit between President Trump and President Putin, away from the precipice of confrontation between nuclear powers, must be seen against the backdrop of the larger, tectonic shift occurring in the world order. The geopolitical, unipolar system is over, and more and more nations of the world, such as the BRICS+ nations, are reorganizing themselves into new modes of cooperation and collaboration for long-overdue development.
This was expressed in a statement by President Putin on the website of the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, whose upcoming meeting begins September 3: “We have identified the development of the Far East as a national priority for the entire 21st century. The importance and correctness of this decision has been confirmed by life itself, by the challenges we have faced recently, and, most importantly, by the real trends that are gaining momentum in the global economy, where the key business ties, trade routes, and in general, the entire vector of development are increasingly reorienting toward the East and the Global South.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for the crucial next steps to be taken coming out of the Trump-Putin summit: President Trump must go to Beijing for the September 3rd 80th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II and there meet with Presidents Xi Jinping and Putin; to cement a new direction for the world, away from the forever wars of the British Empire, those three Presidents must agree to lead a new mode of economic development among nations, spearheaded by the Bering Strait tunnel project.
In her call to those leaders to initiate what she calls the “perfect war-avoidance policy,” Zepp-LaRouche declares: “But there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia, as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which one can find in Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, and the joint development of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly enhance the prosperity of the world.”
That is true security for humanity.
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Among other capacities, Larry C. Johnson is the co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which has done a lot of work since the beginning of “Russiagate” to expose the true nature of the allegations against the incoming first Trump administration.
Now that DNI Tulsi Gabbard has released documents proving that there was no Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, and that The LaRouche Organization has released a White Paper Worse Than Treason: The Actual Motive Behind Russiagate which shows the actual intent behind the election interference allegations, i.e. the drive by the British Empire to get the United States and Russia to fight a nuclear war against each other and wipe out humanity in the same breath, there is a chance to return to diplomatic relations and conflict resolution between President Trump and President Putin.
The upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on August 15th bears the potential of becoming a peace summit if the two sides decide, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphatically urged, “… there is something even more elevated you can do, not only by fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future,” and start construction of the Bering Strait Tunnel project, a project long favored by the LaRouche Movement in the realm of “Development is the New Name for Peace.”
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Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years.
Since its founding in 1998, Larry has been managing partner of BERG (Business Exposure Reduction Group) Associates LLC, which specializes in investigating money laundering and counterfeit products, as well as providing financial analysis and counter terror strategy.
Larry was a frequent guest on all major US networks from the 1990s to the late 2000s, but made the “mistake” of consistently offering candid insights and honest assessments, without deferring to establishment bias. As waging “Forever Wars” became the singular policy objective of 90% of the nation’s elected officials, and of the entire media, those voices offering independent and unbiased analysis were relegated to the wilderness, Larry’s along with them.
Vilified by the establishment right, left and center, Larry must be doing something right. His take on global security, intelligence and geopolitics is regularly sought by businesses, by non-mainstream media, and by an organic and growing online cooperative of non-partisan dissident journalism and commentary.
In 2024, Larry addressed the United Nations Security Council, and attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). He appears regularly on various news sites, video blogs and independent online channels, including Sputnik, RT, Judging Freedom, Redacted and The Duran, among many others.
As the world remembers the unnecessary atomic bombings and loss of lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th 1945, Helga Zepp-LaRouche will interview Dr. Akiko Mikamo on Wednesday, August 6, 11am EDT/5pm CET.
Dr. Akiko Mikamo is the author of the book and film “8:15 Hiroshima—From Father to Daughter,” based on a first-hand account of her father Shinji Mikamo.
Dr. Akiko Mikamo is a Japanese psychologist, author, and the executive producer of the film. The film presents the horrifying reality of nuclear war from Shinji’s perspective, but also provides the basis for which future wars can be avoided, through love, forgiveness, and compassion for the other. Such a message has never been more needed than now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two events which have not been properly understood by the majority of the American public, but which show us the horrifying truth of nuclear warfare.
