Under the headline “Experts call for creating international organizations against nuclear war,” Mexico’s national-circulation daily La Jornada, which is very widely read, published an excellent article Nov. 6 on EIR’s Nov. 5 press conference “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” Reporter Fernando Camacho Servín began his article by reporting that experts in the field agree that “the risk that the world will be destroyed by a nuclear war continues to exist today, in large part due to the tensions caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine making it necessary to create international organizations to counter that threat.”
Camacho Servin highlighted the remarks of some of the speakers—retired University of Missouri nuclear expert Steven Starr, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, former senior advisor to the U.S. Senate Cliff Kiracofe, and Schiller Institute president Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
He captured the chilling nature of Starr’s report, in which he warned that in a nuclear exchange between Russia and the U.S., the 800-1,000 missiles launched by each side would take approximately half an hour to reach their destination and “no one would survive.” Camacho also pointed to Starr’s stark warning that these missiles can be launched preemptively if one side believes—without any certainty—that the enemy has deployed its missiles against them in a process that takes only ten minutes. The result is extinction of the human race.
