Wake Up World - Choose Peace!





It's Time to Rise and Shine

Glorifying Peace Instead of War The magnitude of death and sorrow from a violent act is proportional to the degree of technological sophistication employed in the act: The technology separates and dehumanizes us from the actual act of killing, so today, thousands of people can be vaporized instantly but the person who launched the initial weapon will have seen nothing of this but some data on a computer screen. I thought I could do peaceful work inside the United States' nuclear labs, but I learned I was wrong. I realized that environmental and nuclear non-proliferation work was an illusion, designed to lure well-intentioned young scientists into weapons development programs -- so I resigned and chose to work in the name of peace, and now I urge others to do the same.  By Contributing Writer Andreas Toupadakis, Ph.D     Ra Divakar LIKE: . I thought I could do peaceful work inside the United States' nuclear labs, but I learned I was wrong. I realized that environmental and nuclear non-proliferation work was an illusion, designed to lure well-intentioned young scientists into weapons development programs -- so I resigned and chose to work in the name of peace, and now I urge others to do the same.