Scott Ritter

61 YEARS AGO TODAY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED IN DALLAS.

A few years ago I had a long conversation with Bill Polk, the distinguished former diplomat and academic who served in the White House during the Cuban missile crisis.

We talked about how Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev worked together to prevent a nuclear war.

We talked about how these two leaders began working to repair relations and promote arms control between their two nations when Kennedy was killed.

We then engaged in a speculative journey where we talked about what the world would have been like had Kennedy lived and he and Khrushchev brought their plans to fruition.

We agreed we would be living in a much different world today, one defined by peaceful cooperation instead of nuclear-fueled crisis, if they had.

We talked about writing a book of historical fiction to imagine how this would have played out in the remainder of Kennedy’s first term.

Bill Polk died before we could durn this dream into reality.

I look at the world we live in today, where we are one mistake or miscalculation away from a nuclear Armageddon, and dream of this alternative world.

And then I come to my senses and realize we will all die unless we do something to stop the trajectory we are currently on.

Donald J. Trump was elected on a platform which promised to end the war in Ukraine and prevent a nuclear war with Russia.

And yet President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have ignored the stated will of the American people to pursue policies to escalate the Ukraine conflict and make a nuclear war possible, if not possible.

On December 7, myself and like minded Americans will be gathering in Washington DC to appeal to Donald Trump to step up and remind the Biden administration who won the election, and the imperative of preserving the legitimacy of American democracy by respecting the will of the American people as manifested through their vote.

For we, the people, to make clear to the leadership of the US and Russian leadership that we are not seeking a war, nuclear or otherwise.

December 7 is the day we commemorate the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of America’s participation in the Second World War.

Let us redefine December 7 as the day we the people saved our country, saved our lives, and saved the world because we came to Washington DC and put the Biden administration on notice that their mad march toward nuclear war with Russia will not succeed.

And then, on December 8, on the anniversary of the signing of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in 1987–the treaty that eliminated the most destabilizing missiles in the world—we need to make arms control relevant again.

To once again eliminate these horrible weapons which, because Donald Trump withdrew from the INF treaty, once again threaten us with nuclear destruction.

Plan on joining us in Washington DC on December 7.

Watch this space for updated information.

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