Can Joint Missions In Space Spark A “Higher Peace Movement” Against Thermonuclear War?

Now that the prospect of negotiations with Russia on war matters has been scuttled by NATO’s “Ukrainian-initiated”failed attempt to capture the Kursk nuclear power plant on Russian soil, what possible pathway to peace can even be proposed? Something must be initiated at a much different level. The plight of two stranded American astronauts at the International Space Station reminds us of “a more excellent way.”

Some will remember that during the height of the Cold War, the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission lessened the tensions between the two nations significantly. “Soyuz-Apollo” still echoes the bold ideas of JFK’s space program, and his words delivered to the United Nations September 20, 1963: “Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries--indeed of all the world--cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending someday in this decade to the moon not the representatives of a single nation, but the representatives of all of our countries.”Yuri Borisov, head of the Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said on August 15, “American colleagues are having trouble with the Starliner spaceship, they do not know how to land their crew, so we are in constant dialogue." Not “enemies,” but “colleagues,” engaged in an extra-terrestrial imperative to discover and explore the unknown

Can this, and other possible collaboration regarding the “extraterrestrial imperative,” the frontier purpose of the human race, be the lever to reverse the present downward trajectory toward thermonuclear war, as President Kennedy devoutly wished, after Russia and the United States danced on the ledge, the brink of human civilization’s annihilation, in October of 1962?

Bill Jones will discuss the prospects for a higher peace movement on tonight’s LaRouche Fireside Chat.