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. but we finally if it doesn't think you. should still. useless so you lied to. me are you going to bite you if you just simply use your regions to ruin the management of the weapons we know this morning this morning and the university is basically doing science.

so chancellor yang promised us on monday that you would personally deliver our demands to the u.c. board of regents so i just want to read all of them and stay one here briefly so that you all know what's being forwarded are. we call on the university of california for the regions to withdraw fully and immediately from their contracts to manage the los alamos national laboratory and lawrence livermore national laboratory on the grounds that the reliable replacement or a program of most of the most is ongoing preparations to come to our own tony and that manufacturing fault clearly violate article six of the nineteen seventeen nuclear nonproliferation treaty. so mostly conceivable to release the fairly close to the earth until. the recent.

university of california from the inception of nuclear weapons has been right there in bali. you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single nuclear weapon in cities arsenal was designed by university of california and forty every nuclear weapon. from the days of the manhattan project in one thousand forty two the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision of scientists and their relationship to the university. in the late one nine hundred forty two disease site twitch is now was almost lab was selected by the army for. a place to assemble the first on the

wall of the book through the scientific problems associated with. the university of california who was selected as the contractor to run the stuff that was considered important because the army needed scientists to leave their diversity positions they had come to the only place that they said it would know about. u.c. berkeley had built up an unparalleled scientific organization within the united states at the u.c. radiation laboratory which ernest old warrants was the director of there was the most cutting edge research in the country the types of science that eventually led to the development of nuclear bombs and clued in theoretical forms of physics that the robert oppenheimer was one of the premier scientists in the country in regard to you had often heimer who was kind of chosen as the scientific leader to go the

scientific team robert oppenheimer was their pick because he was. not only of really sophisticated and leading scientists involved with nuclear physics but he was also an administrative position at u.c. berkeley so he worked closely with leslie groves he was the leader of army corps of engineers at the time. it had been a university involved grows well the scientists wouldn't want to be the university and go work for a private defense contractor in the middle the desert in the middle of nowhere. and they liked. more site in part because there were some buildings already and they figured if it started in those buildings. so who had these universities. moving toward them both the first bombs and the first few.

one thousand nine hundred forty five of course states used those first atomic bombs. the first one was detonated in hear him out in like a six thousand nine hundred forty five. and one hundred forty thousand people more or less were incinerated or dead by the end of nine hundred forty five tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of others injured and people today still suffering from radiation related illnesses and are no effects to subsequent generations then the second bomb was dropped by the united states are not a sacking on august ninth one thousand nine hundred forty five with similar catastrophic results. that world war two came to an end rather abruptly and instead instead of ending the manhattan

project the united states government decided to make it permanent right creating an institution called the los alamos national laboratory in the mexico at the original home of manhattan project but this whole relationship where mentioned your earlier should never existed and the universe and gentian and after world war two of one hundred forty seven was determined that. robert sprawl president of universal california said i've had enough of the mexico told me and bollox. i think they were worried about liability they were worried about the oral implications but that changed up quickly after the cold war began. you see was then primarily researching designing the weapons and after you know like the first decade of running the are there really wasn't any question from them not then and those of us that it was that you see about whether you see shit runs or not i mean it's hard not to guarantee stream of revenue so it was

a no brainer for the regions to. wrap up its contracts and. then of course they were joined by a livermore whose purpose was to develop the h. bomb. which was a thousand times more powerful than the a bomb that destroyed the second when it comes to the lawrence livermore national laboratory that was basically a pet project of arrest warrants and it was also a pet project of a guy named edward heller they lobbied the government to create the lawrence livermore laboratory the government did create the wants of the national laboratories so the u.c. naturally became a matter of slowly to. what was clear at that time and it's still clear that for instance there are true major reasons slighting a couple major reasons why they. did want to keep them on the one hand they got a certain amount of money directly from allegedly baggage and the way in fact they

did for an. oversight or for lending their name to that or clear project interest basically why the government wanted. to give the white coated scientific. or to what is actually the process right of the final solution because. in order to land there is a right. to this thought process they go. somebody you probably know this got seven trillion dollars of us since we cured some true. sort of money and you get that kind of money floating around there's a lot of people across that are trying to keep a good position they're out to create big powerful universities as university administrators their goal is growth it's just a corporation grow get bigger get more powerful bring in more revenue bring in more students believe it the readers see this as a success most of them as

a successful business feel that is helping american national security. and that is just part of the national patriotic project their right thinking people would naturally support. you see it is run by the board of regents these twenty six individuals it's her and then with all of the major policies that even the structure of the institution as a whole it's grounds and buildings finance missions policies. and of course the nuclear weapons are so these. eighteen of them are appointed by the governor and then seven of them are sufficient members of the state bureaucracy that are inside us krefeld congress and the board of regents the governor selects

the regions and he tends to select guys or every once in while women too but mostly guys who are big campaign contributors or who are allies politically influential allies of of the governor ever since d.c. was founded one hundred forty years ago the regions have been appointed by the governor primarily on the basis of clinical patronage corporate elites who have given tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to the governor in his political campaigns usually get rewarded with a seat on the board of the regions. and essentially at that appointment as regent as then sort of. a reward if you well for a service to the governor service of the state.

you see where you can serve basically the economic leaders of the state of california these are the guys who are the directors most often of the major industries that are prominent california in a given time. the regions are in most cases the wealthy business elites who are in some cases c.e.o.'s of major war profiteering multinational corporations. you see a lot of regents who are in charge of big media companies military industrial firms real estate for arms is really like a circle at the top that kind of dominates the. goings on the circle generally composed of the. chair of the regions in the past year the president and a few of the executive officers. the current chair of the board of regents is

richard bloom. richard lum is someone who i see as a very conflicted individual on one hand he has a free tibet bumper sticker on the back of his b.m.w. he has said on several occasions that he is a passionate advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons on the other hand he was deeply invested in the your ass corporation and perini corporation both of whom received construction contracts to rebuild iraq after u.s. imperial forces leveled that country on the other hand richard long as the chairman of the board of regents who was managing the national nuclear weapons labs a lot of business connections get money for example arnold schwarzenegger's personal financier paul walker who is second only to his wife in terms of people who have influence and sway over governor shorts and here paul walker is

and you see the region it's that sort of connection that gets people printed and you see a region. the large body of people of the university are reaching out to the region said asking them and trying to get them to understand some of the problems of the university fundamentally and the at their regions they don't listen essential to the rank and file people on the ground the university they don't represent the students the faculty the staff they don't actually represent their constituencies and the question is can the regions have the courage in the insight to recognise that best thing if they truly care about nuclear weapons and their management of the weapons right now they have been i think there's a little bit of denial there they don't see that and the question is can we persuade them of that long term change in universities cannot be affected by people who assume that it is

a democratic institution it has to be worked through a back channel bureaucratic methods which is how it normally operates or through public pressure. i was thank you thank you thank you thank you i was a kid all right i'm probably through these occur i fear i truly do feel be a part of the man's ever planned community. was before somehow think it was. i was there or not i think iraq. was releasing the old fries the you see and campaigns like you seen a clear free came together and the early part of the two thousand sent a special evil enough so the iraq war when we started the campaign we believed that

if students found out about this that they knew more about it if they understood that their university was involved with making nuclear weapons the most dangerous and destructive weapons ever created by humans that the students would want to respond to that that they would want to react to that and protest that i decided to get involved in the u.c. nuclear free campaign because i feel very passionately that universities should educate and work for peace and justice sustainability in the commonwealth and managing nuclear weapon labs is the exact opposite. i try not to get involved in anything that i don't think i can have an impact and i feel it has i mean you say student because i'm you know essentially a part of this machine. that i have the power to stand up and say ok we're part of this machine i'm out of here the way this thing is running. wild.

was a movement need someone to sort of work against. and that incredible unfairness of the u.c. regents is the perfect target per broad based student. social movement. in the main it sounds like our ultimate goal is just in that case in nuclear free but everyone has been involved with using nuclear. and so nuclear movement within the you see. i've yet to meet one person who thinks that's the actual goal. we all tend to agree that the actual goal is the abolition of nuclear weapons the university of california severing ties with the nuclear weapons labs i think would have a very

a very important impact on the united states and beyond the united states social plans movements in the united states and around the world in the least in modern times have almost always been led by young people. so young people . students have a significant role to play in this case tunes have been the backbone of some of the most powerful movements in america the story of the civil rights movement the free speech movement these are forces of history that we learn about now and i think that students have just as much power as they did. and it's research that our going to switch. to something that is as important as this it gets we need to stop using the nuclear weapon. as a possible war strategy and we're going to start by divesting this educational institution that's supposed to further

a supposed to further this country's most of her the state supposed to further every single one of us we divest that institution from nuclear weapons we need to completely make this way the students could be the spirit of the campaign for u.s. leadership for nuclear weapons free world we're not going to get to a nuclear weapons free world without u.s. leadership and we're not going to get u.s. leadership unless the citizens of the united states begin to demand such leadership and wouldn't it be wonderful if the students of the university of california awakened and helped lead that movement for u.s. leadership for nuclear weapons free world. but if you look at just how much the movement has grown and i fought in the four years that i went to school it's really amazing looking back because my freshman

year is really started out and there were like five of us on campus like what was going on with the university and it seemed almost like this great. club. secret and we just each other on campus and look at each other and go. you know and i know like the going on and anyone else.

during the seventy's and eighty's and ninety's there were questions about whether the university should. add on the records are records as the center court which is about an eight hundred seventy seven which is the faculty program they can somebody said. something about this whole range mills university of california is not growing the language of it is simply falling when you're in the laboratory. i think there's one famous one with is that you describe the university oversight of the laboratory is being sold permissive as the penny and licentious university of california was sort of an absentee landlord and it was a. you know it was the source of a great deal of profit. and working closely in the weapons

program for quite a while you do become aware that. you know nuclear weapons the materials they are used to make their money by nature kind of are hazardous and. you have to be. careful with the. number of bizarre terrible accidents of their march every six weeks or so there'd be something happening that they had of had a bad effect on the health effect on somebody on on at least one person. i don't know say. well solomon is not operating to nuclear industry sic to standard they actually found that at livermore lab they were storing plutonium in paint cans food cans the thing about plutonium is it has to be stored in an airtight container. i worked and the plutonium

facility m.p.'s full in the glove boxes there were a number of incidents in the glove boxes they were accidents actually they weren't incidents they were accidents they resulted in people being exposed to plutonium in various forms. there was a pretty. good. your radio was all over it is on fire they were worried that there would be a sampling critics however in the more senior arena because it was really out of control and as a community we were extremely lucky that there wasn't just sacking even larger critic howard g. . but it really illustrates the extreme houser of nuclear weapons development activity i met one young man and his

right side in her late twenty's and it was his high school sweetheart. she had skin cancer and she would have to cross the street from a park that they call big trees. but a lot of people in livermore call it plutonium park because for decades. in the release plutonium to the city sewage so we're in big trees hard here in livermore and when the e.p.a. here antipasto oil sample them right over here and down in the sea the wind chill is a juror and. they found elevated levels of plutonium that obviously came from livermore laboratory. as far as the pub was really an accident so. yeah i would say that it and each lab we certainly

had our fair i've been lucky enough not to be involved in any of them but especially with the livermore lab being right next to a population center preventing those things has to be not a top priority but the top priority so just the way it has to be what is fairly dismaying in recent years is that as the role has been questioned for entirely different reasons namely that security was. that people were careless and their faith their handling of classified and materials and information. at livermore most analysts were the question was raised for that reason the university fought hard to keep control of it rather than letting it go if you went up there and actually noticed and actually could investigate their security. we would not be

happy. for instance in an area that's that a lot of people are on notice is that richard has nuclear credits you know which of the. primary are the pits include twenty in primary which is the first stage of a thermo nuclear weapon. earlier this year two thousand and eight that department of energy sent a mock terrorist team she never more allowed. them our lab knew the mock terrorists were coming livermore lab knew almost a year in advance and knew to within two hours of when the mock terrorists would arrive and get the mob terrorists were able to carry out there to be a jap. terrorist came in the would be mock terrorist kingpin succeeded at some things that we didn't really want him to succeed at. in spite of so many precautions. if it said out

there first jack good place to get access to livermore labs neutronium and to hold their ground long enough to create an improvised nuclear device which is a not just a dirty bomb but an actual crude nuclear bomb their second to jacket that they also were able to carry out was to steal and they were using simulated plutonium but essentially they were in the superblock in the building if they had been real terrorists it would have been the real deal they were able to steal the plutonium and take it off site get off site with it so that they could detonate a bomb at a later time in place of they are choosing.

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