More than six decades ago, former US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), in a special emergency broadcast to his countrymen on October 22, 1962, stated: “It shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.”

Over the 18 minutes of the President’s speech that night, the world was transformed. Humanity was closer to Global Thermonuclear War, and therefore, to its potential annihilation, than at any time before or since – until the Fall of 2024.

On December 25, 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov said: “Recently, Pentagon generals have openly deliberated on the potential for ‘limited nuclear strikes’ with the Russian Federation, with the intention to ensure they emerge victorious from such an exchange.”

When the Joe Biden Administration authorised and enabled the deployment, through Ukraine, of long-range missiles against Russia, and Moscow, in response, successfully deployed its new, still-presently-unstoppable Oreshnik missile – without the nuclear warheads which it is capable of carrying – against Ukraine in November 2024, the world stepped beyond the brink of what JFK had merely enunciated in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.

In the third week of October 2025, however, a startling revelation regarding 1963 emerged from a file on the JFK assassination provided to the US by the Russian Government. The recently-released file contained a hand-drawn map which described a proposal to obstruct what was called on the map the Khrushchev-Kennedy Peace Bridge. On the map, written in English, and in large lettering, appear these words: “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge – could and should be built between Alaska and Russia. At once.” All the points of emphasis appear on the original map.

The Bering Strait Tunnel Project, in illustrated form, has been a widely circulated part of the Schiller Institute’s work for the past 35 years. For three years (since the 2022 escalation of the war between NATO and Russia in Ukraine), it has been the unique role of the International Peace Coalition, the Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Organisation to insist that “peace through development” is the only way to durably end war, or to even propose a durable peace.

On October 22, 2025, Russian and US experts on what is often referred to as the Bering Strait Tunnel Project met on an online symposium sponsored on very short notice by the Executive Intelligence Review, the magazine founded by economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019).

International Peace Coalition (IPC) published this article on October 23, 2025.

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