Every year on August 6, I hold a somber event in honor of Hiroshima Day. It is a day for remembering what happens when the most advanced technology of an era is placed in the service of mass death — and for asking whether we have learned anything since.
This year, after more than two years of war and genocide that the world has watched in real time, remembrance alone did not feel like enough. So on Hiroshima Day 2026, I am marking the anniversary with action on three fronts.
A free book, in English and Spanish
On August 6, I will release my third book, No Ethics in Big Tech: An Insider’s Case Against Silicon Valley’s War on Humanity — and the Fight to Make Them Pay. The introduction is written by Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
The book will be distributed entirely free of charge, in both English and Spanish. I have written at length about why Hiroshima Day is the right day for this launch — the line that runs from the mushroom cloud to cloud computing is shorter than most people in my former industry would like to admit.
Forever Peace Now, screening around the world
My documentary film Forever Peace Now continues to travel. In recent months I have held screenings and question-and-answer sessions with organizations online and in person — from the Palestine Museum and RootsAction to an in-person screening hosted by the Amnesty International Toledo chapter in Spain and another here in Yerevan, Armenia.
If you have not yet seen the film, you can watch it free on YouTube or on Vimeo, where it now carries closed captions in Spanish and Armenian. If your organization, congregation, or community group would like to host a screening, I would be honored to join the conversation.
A petition that is gathering strength
Our petition to hold Big Tech companies and executives complicit in crimes against humanity and genocide accountable is now co-sponsored by RootsAction and World Beyond War. Available in both Spanish and English, it has passed 800 signatures — and every additional name strengthens the case that Palantir, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and my former employer, Amazon, must answer for their role.
You can read the full text of the petition at ForeverPeaceNow.com/Petition, and share a short video about it on your own social media in English or Spanish.
From mushroom cloud to cloud computing
On Hiroshima Day itself, I will share the free book along with a short new video, From Mushroom Cloud to Cloud Computing: Silicon Valley’s Eternal War on Humanity. Subscribers to my email list will receive it first.
Eighty-one years after Hiroshima, the question remains the same: will the builders of powerful technology accept responsibility for what it does to human beings? This year, I am asking you to help answer it — by reading, by watching, by signing, and above all, by sharing.
By Vahid Razavi — ForeverPeaceNow.com | ParentsPlea.com | Author of The Age of Nepotism, Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof and the forthcoming NO ETHICS IN BIG TECH (releasing Hiroshima Day, August 6, 2026)
