Stop and think about what the following report from Newsweek, on June 20, 2025, actually means. “The Trump administration has not taken anything ‘off the table’, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons, if it decides to take military action against the underground Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow,” Fox News reported, citing a White House official.

No matter what you are told by the White House or the Pentagon or anyone else, there is no such thing as the use of one tactical nuclear weapon. In the words of Annie Jacobs, the author of Nuclear War: A Scenario: “If nuclear war begins, it doesn’t end until there is a nuclear holocaust. And it happens so fast. There is no quickly going to your secret bunker.”

What does Russia do, if the US or Israel deploys the first nuclear bomb used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago? In the third week of July 2025, Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel, wrote to President Trump: “No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since (Harry S) Truman in 1945.”

Let this be clear: President Truman dropping the atomic bomb in 1945 was not essential to ending the war. Dropping the bomb on an already surrendering Japan was necessary to begin the next World War, planned by Britain’s Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill one month after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. In May, Churchill proposed Operation Unthinkable, a plan to immediately nuke the erstwhile Soviet Union with American-made bombs to “impose the will of the US and the British Empire”, in the plan’s actual words.

The use of nuclear weapons has always been wrong, has never been necessary, and is never other than a tool of imperial force. The people of the US and the global community must stop the madness of governments and fanatics. The nations of the Global Majority, especially the BRICS nations (of which Iran is a member), must have their voices heard. Nations should not be brought to the conclusion that the only way to retain and defend their sovereignty is to build nuclear weapons.

In Southwest Asia, we need a consortium of regional countries, working with the US, Russia and China, to create a nuclear weapons-free zone – which has to include Israel joining the IAEA and signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), as Iran did. A crash programme for the peaceful use of nuclear power as an energy source, for water desalination and other purposes, needs to involve all nations in the region. A New Security and Development Architecture, based on diplomacy, and not assassinations and war, must result from actions taken in the next hours and days.

The period ahead is more dangerous than the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now is the time to act. It is up to people to save themselves, and civilisation itself, by speaking out and acting up. The world needs to hear from free citizens who say: “No to assassinations, regime changes and Thermonuclear World War Ị.” It is time, now, to change our world, before there is no world left to change.

Read the ‘10 Principles for A New Security and Development Architecture’ proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the LaRouche Movement‘s Schiller Institute, as well as the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Party.

The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter (Volume 39, No. 26) published this article on June 26, 2025.

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