Aug. 12—In an Aug. 10 interview with TASS, Prof. Peter Kuznick, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University proposed building a Bering Strait tunnel that would connect the United States with Russia through high-speed rail.

Kuznick, who is well-known as a collaborator with filmmaker Oliver Stone on several historical projects, urged building upon the upcoming Trump-Putin summit, by holding talks that would involve the leaders of Russia, Brazil, India, China, and the United States. “What I would like to see is a follow-up meeting between Trump, Putin, and [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping at the World War II commemoration [Sept. 3] in China. It would be even better if [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi and [Brazilian President Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva] also join.”

He urged cooperation between Russia, the U.S., and perhaps other nations, on joint development projects in the Arctic “and perhaps a Bering Strait Tunnel connecting Russia and the U.S. with high-speed rails.” This sort of collaboration could “put the world back on the path toward peace and begin easing the tensions that have made our world so insanely dangerous of late,” he said.

EIR covered this idea on Aug. 8. On Aug. 11, Schiller Institute Founder Helga-Zepp LaRouche released an open letter to Presidents Trump and Putin, which said that as they meet August 15 at a summit in Alaska, “There is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas.” This would produce physical development.

Zepp-LaRouche added, that as a result of such a project: “In the not so distant future, one could then travel by high-speed railroad around the world, from the most southern tips of Argentina and Chile in Ushuaia and Puerto Williams, all way through the Americas, then through the Bering Strait, across Eurasia, then with a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, travel all the way through the African continent to the Cape of Good Hope.”