Dr. Charles Prewitt

Charles Prewitt supported World War II and served as a chemist with duPont, including two years on the Manhattan Project. As a result of Hiroshima, he became convinced that humans could destroy themselves totally with nuclear weapons. Hence, he left his career in the natural sciences and obtained a Doctorate in Education. It appeared to him that humanity could cease to exist as a result of knowledge in the natural sciences and could only be saved through application of expanded knowledge in the social sciences. In 1970 he retired as Professor Emeritus from Eastern Connecticut State University. He had taught thirty-eight years in universities, ten of those in Asia, including six in Afghanistan, and eight in the peace studies program at the University of Connecticut. While in Asia he wrote several textbooks. During retirement he has been active in a number of peace organizations and has been lecturing on peace topics from Massachusetts to Tennessee. He now opposes all wars and all military expenditures by all nations.