Global Research Editor’s Note

We are currently at a dangerous crossroads in our history. The dangers of nuclear war are real

Nuclear war is on the drawing board of the Pentagon. A budget of 1.3 trillion dollars which is slated to increase to 2 trillion in 2030 has been allocated to nuclear weapons.

The use of nuclear weapons against Iran and Russia is contemplated. Politicians are totally ignorant. They think that they can win a nuclear war. 

The following message by Fidel Castro against Nuclear War was recorded 14 years ago on October 15, 2010: 

There would be “collateral damage”, as the American political and military leaders always affirm, to justify the deaths of innocent people.

In a nuclear war the “collateral damage” would be the life of all humanity.

Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!

Fidel Castro Ruz, October 15, 2010

Below is the full text of this brief and forceful message as well the video recording.

This important message was based on Fidel Castro’s analysis and understanding of the dangers of military escalation including US threats to use nuclear weapons on a pre-emptive basis.

It was recorded at his home on the last day of our meetings in October 2010 by Cuba Debate and Global Research. 

The transcript of our conversations on the dangers of nuclear war are recorded by Global Research as well in Chapter II of my book entitled  The Globalization of War, America’s Long War against Humanity

—Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, October 8, 2024

 FIDEL’S HISTORIC MESSAGE ON THE DANGERS OF NUCLEAR WAR  (Transcript below)

TRANSCRIPT

The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity.

This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action.

This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime.

Fidel Castro and Michel Chossudovsky, Havana, October 2010

Each and every government in the world has the obligation to respect the right to life of each and every nation and of the totality of all the peoples on the planet.

Today there is an imminent risk of war with the use of that kind of weapon and I don’t harbour the least doubt that an attack by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran would inevitably evolve towards a global nuclear conflict.

The World’s peoples have an obligation to demand of their political leaders their Right to Live. When the life of humankind, of your people and your most beloved human beings run such a risk, nobody can afford to be indifferent; not one minute can be lost in demanding respect for that right; tomorrow will be too late.

Albert Einstein himself stated unmistakably: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.

We fully comprehend what he wanted to convey, and he was absolutely right, yet in the wake of a global nuclear war, there wouldn’t be anybody around to make use of those sticks and stones.

There would be “collateral damage”, as the American political and military leaders always affirm, to justify the deaths of innocent people.

In a nuclear war the “collateral damage” would be the life of all humanity.

Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!

Fidel Castro Ruz

October 15, 2010

The following pictures were taken after the filming of Fidel’s speech against Nuclear war, October 15, 2010 . Below is a Toast to World Peace.

Left to Right. Fidel Castro, Film Crew, Michel Chossudovsky, Randy Alonso Falcon