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DESCRIPTION:Why I Quit the Livermore Nuclear Labs: A Lecture on US Foreign Policy 
 Leading up to 9-11 and its Effects on Global Security\n\nPresented by Dr. 
 Andreas Toupadakis & Professor Michael Nagler \n\nDr. Andreas Toupadakis, 
 nuclear chemist turned dedicated peace advocate, will speak on what lead 
 him to quit his job at the Livermore Nuclear Labs and about the war in 
 Afghanistan and what dramatic actions need to be taken if we are to avert 
 universal nuclear annihilation. \n\nDr. Michael Nagler, Chair of the Peace 
 and Conflict Studies Department at UC Berkeley, and author of Is There No 
 Other Way: the Search for a Nonviolent Future, will discuss the problems 
 and possibilities of living -- and acting -- for nonviolence in a violent 
 age. \n\n*Time will be allotted for a Question and Answer session* 
 \n\n\nSponsored by \nThe UC Berkeley Peace and Conflict Studies Department 
 \nUC Berkeley National Organization for Women (NOW) \nUC Berkeley Hellenic 
 and Greek Cypriot Organization \n\nFor More Information, please contact: 
 \nUCBNOW@hotmail.com \n\nThis event is ASUC Sponsored and Wheelchair 
 Accessible \n\nBIOGRAPHY \n\nDr. Andreas Toupadakis has spoken about peace 
 and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament at the UN as well as numerous 
 colleges, universities, and other venues in the US, Japan, and Greece. He 
 was a featured speaker at the 2000 World Conference on Atomic and Hydrogen 
 Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and he has been the recipient of 
 numerous peace and justice awards. The City of Berkeley adopted a 
 resolution honoring him for the courage and personal sacrifice he displayed 
 in leaving his job at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. \n\nDr. Toupadakis 
 resigned dramatically from Lawrence Livermore Lab and his $91,000 salary in 
 January 2000 when he discovered they were using the results of his 
 environmental work in the Stockpile Stewardship Program to illegally 
 maintain and develop new nuclear weapons with increased destructive power. 
 He blew the whistle and joined the peace movement, saying that his 
 conscience would not allow him to work for such a cause. He instantly 
 became an outspoken advocate for peace, and especially for immediate 
 unilateral nuclear disarmament. \n\nRecently, as American bombs began to 
 fall in Afghanistan, Andreas renounced the US and the killing of innocent 
 civilians. He believes that such a course of action, at this time in 
 history, with the present cast of characters, has the potential to spark a 
 nuclear holocaust. He then made the difficult decision to leave the US and 
 return to his native Greece to develop a grassroots peace movement. He will 
 live low-tech on an old family farm, and be a real-life example of how 
 people can disconnect from the high-tech fast lane and return to a 
 peaceful, more meaningful, less destructive life. \n\nDr. Toupadakis is a 
 native of Greece with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has taught chemistry at colleges and universities 
 in the US and Greece, and he worked as a chemist in industry as well as at 
 Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. He has a wife and 
 two daughters. He believes deeply in non-violence, and he revels in the 
 teachings of such varied figures as Gandhi, Plato, Socrates and Einstein. 
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/4183.php
SUMMARY:US Foreign Policy , 9/11, & Global Security: Why I Quit the Livermore Nuclear La
LOCATION:Thursday, February 7 \n6-8 pm \nUC Berkeley, 155 Dwinelle 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/4183.php
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