I recently talked with Ken Peters in South Bend, Indiana. \u00a0 He was stationed at Alamagordo Air Force Base in New Mexico next to White Sands — during the time the first atom bomb was tested. \u00a0 Since then, the U.S. has gone on to amass thousands of nuclear weapons. \u00a0 Peters is opposed to nuclear weapons proliferation and speaks out against it regularly. \u00a0 He points to Jack Mendelsohn, a former US. State Department official, who says America should stop waving the nuclear threat at potential adversaries. \u00a0 “This nation (U.S.) can’t become more secure by reserving for itself the right to use nuclear weapons — while preaching abstinence for the rest of the world,” \u00a0 says Mendelsohn. \u00a0 Ken wonders: \u00a0 “Where are the voices of reason?” \u00a0 … Ken Peters’s wife Ellie gave me a small pamphlet that explained some 57% of our national budget goes to the Military, while 6% goes to Health and Human Services; 4% goes to Education; 4% goes to Housing and Urban Development; 1% goes to the Environmental Protection Agency… \u00a0 Ellie wonders: \u00a0 Where are the voices of reason in these figures? \u00a0 Maybe they all ‘took the last train for the coast.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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