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To visit recent articles by Dr. Andreas Toupadakis go to West By Nothwest.org and then enter "Andreas Toupadakis" in the search box on the right.
February, 2003
The
Peace Movement: First Impressions
- 2/5/02
The World's People Ask You: Why? Open Letter to the Leaders
of All Nations - 2/10/02
Is There Western Racism? - 2/13/02
Open Letter to the Director
of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - 2/16/00
Open Letter to Nobel Peace
Prize Winner Joseph Rotblat - December, 2001
Soldier, Can You Hear? 10/1/01
Nuclear Weapons; Abolish or Perish - 1/6/02
Immoral Science
and my Nuclear Odyssey: The World Behind the Security Fence - 1/1/02
Why Such Accusations? Open letter to Mrs. Bonnie Miller
Wife of Thomas Miller, US Ambassador to Greece - 12/31/01
Biography
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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.
Recently, 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. We hope to hear from Dr. Andreas as he settles into another way of life.
Dr. 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.
To visit recent articles by Dr. Andreas Toupadakis go to West By Nothwest.org and then enter "Andreas Toupadakis" in the search box on the right.