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In an already tense strategic climate, the introduction in the U.S.
by President Trump of a "Golden Dome" missile defense system increases
the threat of nuclear war with Russia and China, rather than enhancing
security. Dr. Theodore Postol, who is a renowned expert on modern
warfare and nuclear weapons, will discuss with Helga Zepp-LaRouche his
conclusions about the danger inherent in the design of the system.
In his review of the proposal, Postol concludes that 1.) this
proposal of the Trump Administration poses an enormous danger to
geopolitical stability; and 2), the second part of the Trump
Administration’s proposal, which is to expand the ground-based missile
defense system, would simply increase the size of a defense system
that now provably has no missile defense capability.
However, he believes that rather than serving as a deterrent, the
appearance of an expanded missile defense program might well result in
the Russians and Chinese feeling compelled to expand their offense of
nuclear forces to offset perceptions that the United States might have
some residual capability to negate their nuclear deterrents
When combined with the insistence of Germany's new Chancellor Merz
that the limits be lifted to the range of long-range missiles provided
to Ukraine, we are entering a moment of extreme instability which
heightens the risk of nuclear war.
This discussion follows last weekend's Schiller Institute conference which
focused on the "LaRouche Solution" to the strategic crisis, centered
around the battle to establish a new strategic and development
architecture to replace the collapsing Unipolar Order.
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