Question: What is the alternative for nuclear checkmate, what alternative is there to this?

LaRouche: There really is no nuclear checkmate as such. What you have is you have a bunch of fascists called existentialists, of the type associated with Cheney and his circles, such as Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Bolton of the State Department, Wormser, and so forth. Now these fascists have adopted -- since 1991 when Cheney was Defense Secretary -- adopted a policy of so-called mini-nuclear weapons to be used as weapons of choice against non-nuclear powers and other nations. So therefore, you have a group of people in the US government who are committed to conducting nuclear war as preventive nuclear war, along the same lines as Bertrand Russell in 1944-45 pushed for the use of nuclear weapons as preventive nuclear warfare, and Bertrand Russell, who is responsible for the process leading to the totally unnecessary nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So the problem here is not the idea of a nuclear checkmate, though there is an element of, if you start throwing nuclear weapons on this planet, you're going to change everything very quickly, politically and otherwise. But the problem is, is how to check this bunch of fascist menaces associated with Wolfowitz, Cheney and so forth, how to check them now, before they start a series of nuclear exchanges. There is no nuclear checkmate in the sense that we talked about the balance of nuclear terror in former times. This is actually something much more dangerous and must be stopped.

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