{"id":118162,"date":"2018-09-24T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=118162"},"modified":"2018-09-08T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T11:26:06","slug":"wake-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/09\/wake-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The alarm is sounding.
\nCan you hear it?<\/p>\n

Can you hear the bells
\nof Nagasaki
\nringing out for peace?<\/p>\n

Can you feel the heartbeat
\nof Hiroshima
\npulsing out for life?<\/p>\n

The survivors of Hiroshima
\nand Nagasaki
\nare growing older.<\/p>\n

Their message is clear:
\nNever again!<\/p>\n

Wake up!
\nNow, before the feathered arrow
\nis placed into the bow.<\/p>\n

Now, before the string
\nof the bow is pulled taut,
\nthe arrow poised for flight.<\/p>\n

Now, before the arrow is let loose,
\nbefore it flies across oceans
\nand continents.<\/p>\n

Now, before we are engulfed in flames,
\nwhile there is still time, while we still can,
\nWake up!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, 1946.
Image: United States Library of Congress\/Wikimedia<\/p><\/div>\n

______________________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>David Krieger is founder and president of the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/em>, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. <\/em>Amongst several of his wide-spanning leadership endeavors in global peacebuilding, he is a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, councilor on the World Future Council, and is the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. Dr. Krieger is the author of many books and studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010)<\/em>. He<\/em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up.\u00a0 For more visit the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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