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politicians to end the impasse. up next r t a lectures in lethal weapons from a us university where america's nuclear arsenal was born stay with us. me. sir but we are money to this day you know. if. you like. there you know you got a prior to the meeting to see if you should really just ruin the management if you're with us i know this morning this morning universally 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 i just want to read are the several one here a place that you all know is being forwarded on. says we call on the university of california corporations 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 most of the most is ongoing preparations to come dark plutonium that manufacturing also clearly violate article six of the nineteen seventeen nuclear nonproliferation treaty. it's a little soon conceivable to realize that there we go through the worst. legal immunity of.

the university of california from the inception of nuclear weapons has been right there and our. 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 platy 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 it's provision of scientists and their relationship to the university. in the late one nine hundred forty two disease site which is now also almost lab was selected by the army for.

a place to assemble the first time of all the work from the scientific problems associated with. the university of california who was selected as the contractor to run the stuff and that was considered important because the army needed scientists to leave their diversity positions and come to go on the place that i said it will be all about. u.c. berkeley had built up an unparalleled scientific organization within the united states the u.c. radiation laboratory which ernest overboard was the director of there was the most cutting edge research in the country on the types of science that eventually led to the development of nuclear bombs and clean theoretical forms of physics that she robert oppenheimer was one of the premier scientists in the country in regard to

you had often hired him or who was kind of chosen i was the science of the leader to go the scientific team robert oppenheimer was their pick because he was. not only a really sophisticated comedian scientists involved with nuclear physics but he was also in 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 girls felt that scientists would want to leave the university and go work for a private defense contractor in the middle of does or in the middle of nowhere. and they liked little subtle site in part because there were song buildings already and they figured they could get started in those buildings. so he had his

universe. moving toward them both the first bombs and the first few. thousand nine hundred forty five players it states used those first atomic bombs. the first one annoys me to hear him or him like a six thinking forty five. and one hundred forty thousand people more or less who are incinerated were 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 unknown affects to the subsequent generations and the second round was stopped by the united states and that a saturday on august ninth one thousand 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 creating an institution called the los alamos national laboratory in mexico at the original home i was going to happen project but this whole relationship where mentioned earlier should never existed in the universe and tension in the after world war two about nine hundred forty seven was determined it. robert sprawl president of the university of california said i've had enough of new mexico he told me and then bob's. they were worried about liability they were worried about the oral implications but that changed up quickly after the cold war began. you see it was then primarily researching designing the weapons and after you know like the first decade of running the law there really wasn't any question from them up and down on the nose up or circles that you see about whether you can see should run this or

not i mean you talk about a guaranteed stream of revenue there was a no brainer for the regions to. rattle 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 a destroyed the second when it comes to lawrence livermore national laboratory that was basically a pet project of grass lawrence and it was also it had project of a guy named edward heller they lobbied the government to create the lawrence livermore laboratory of the government they created lawrence livermore national laboratory it's sort of the you seem naturally be feeling better about this already to you. what was clear at that time and it's still clear it's consider a major reason why the a couple major reasons why they. did want to keep on the one hand they got

a certain amount of money directly from allegedly managing the lights in fact they did for an. oversight but for lending their name to the peer project interest basically why the government wanted. to give a white coated scientific. or to what is actually a process like that of the final solution of the. good order to lend their name as a grain. of truth that russia's big. someone here can probably know this because seven trillion dollars of us since we can see the true. slot of money and you can think of money for a lot of work to trust their children and keep a good position they're out to create big powerful universities as university administrators their goal is. just a corporation grow get bigger get more powerful bring in more revenue bring in more

students believe that the region see this as a success most of them as a successful business feel that is helping american national security. and that is you know this part of the national patriotic project right thinking people with national support. you see is run by the board of regents these twenty six individuals it's all of the major policies you know the structure of the institution as a whole that's grounds and the aim is finance and missions policies. and of course the nuclear weapons are sort of these. eighteen of them are appointed by the governor and man seven of them are ex-officio members of the state

bureaucracy that are inside as krefeld members of 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 you see was founded one hundred forty years ago the regions have been appointed by the governor primarily on the basis of political 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 border regions. and essentially at that appointment of region it has been sort of. a reward a few well for a service to the governor so the sort of state.

you see regents are basically the economic leaders of the state of california these the guys who are the directors most often of the major industries that are prominent california in any given time. regions are in most cases where the wealthy business elites who are in some cases c.e.o.'s of major war profiteering multinational corporations. you see a lot of regions who are in charge of big media companies military industrial firms real estate firms is really like a circle at the top that dominates the. goings on the circles generally composed of the. chair of the regions in the past chair 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 creamy 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 is managing the national nuclear weapons labs a lot of business connections a good man for example arnold schwarzenegger's personal financier paul wachter who is second only to his wife in terms of people who have of influence and sway

over governor schwarzenegger. paul walker there is a new saying regent it's that sort of connection that gets people appointed and you see a region. the large body of people at the university are we see us everything said asking them and trying to get them to understand some of the problems of the university fundamentally and yet the regions they and they don't listen to centuries have our 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 the best thing if they truly care about abolition nuclear weapons is to end 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 a long term change in universities cannot be affected by people who

is that it is a democratic institution it has to be worked through a back channel bureaucratic methods which is how the normally operates or through public pressure i was thank god he was who people who are here i truly want people to come and i am the community. was the first time i was thinking thank you. was. the phrase that you see. campaigns like you seen a clear free came together. and the early part of the two thousands and especially

we end up so the iraq war when we started the campaign we believe that if students found out about this if 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 if the students would want to respond to that that they would want to react to that and protest it i decided to get involved in the you see 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 land with each act obviously. 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 see student because i'm you know essentially a part of this machine. that i have the power to stand up and say hey there's

a part of this machine i'm not to be with the way that she is running. i am movement need someone to sort of work against and the incredible unfairness of the u.c. regents as the perfect target for a broad based student led social movement. in the name it sounds like our ultimate goal is just to make peace and nuclear free but. everyone has been involved with the you see nuclear. as a 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 came from a movement in the united states and around the world in least in modern times have almost always been led by people. so young people. and students have a significant role to play baseball students have been the backbone of some of the most powerful movements in american history the civil rights movement the free speech movement these are the forces of history that we were on about now and i think that students have just as much power as they say. and it's research that our going to school. to something that is as important as this that's when you 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 is best for the state it's supposed to further every single one of us. divest that institution from their weapons we need to completely make this play the students could be the spearhead of the campaign for u.s. leadership for a 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.

if you look at just how much the movement has grown in life or in the four years that i went to school it's really amazing weapon 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 just like when i was at the club that i had this amazing secret and we just he's here on campus and looking so there you go. you know and i know what the going on and any one of a. very

. seventy's and eighty's and ninety's there were questions about whether the university should. manage the nuclear weapons are records as the center in port au prince of an eight hundred seventy seven which is a faculty record and they considered it's a. sad thing about this whole range one of the university of california is not going to let me do it is simply pointer in the letter. i think is one famous one where this said i describe the university oversight of the laboratory is being sold commiserate as to be a nice century it's the 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. working closely in the weapons program for quite a while you 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 that. number of bizarre terrible accidents up there. every six weeks or so there'd be something happening that they had of had a bad effect on the health effect on somebody and on at least one person. and unless a service was almost there's no operating to clear in the streets experience they actually found that at livermore lab they were storing plutonium in pink

caroms food cans the thing about plutonium is it has to be stored in an airtight container. i worked and the plutonium facility in p.f. or in the glove boxes there were a number of incidents in the glove boxes there 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. sick i hear radio going all over the morning is on fire they were worried that there would be a sampling rate in our in the morgue in your brain and because it is completely out of control as a community we were extremely lucky that there wasn't just stacking even larger criticality on but it really illustrates the extreme

houser of nuclear weapons development activity i met one young man and his wife died in her late twenty's and it was his high school sweetheart. she had skin cancer and she lived across the street from a park that they called pictures park but a lot of people in livermore call it plutonium park because for decades but are more like the release plutonium to the city so it's still there in big trees park here in livermore and when the e.p.a. came here and took the story your sample from right over there would be down in the top tier wages and dirt 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 at 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 system 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 bad. the people were perilous and they're safe so their handling of classified materials and information. at livermore mysel it was when 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. and we would not be happy. in an area that's a lot of people are notices that the water trudeau's nuclear plants you know which are the primary pits primary the first stage of reform in the. earlier this year two thousand and eight the department of energy sent a mock terrorist team to livermore lab. livermore lab knew the mock terrorists were coming over more 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 their to mean of japeth terrorists came in the. terrorists came in and succeeded at some things that we didn't really want them to succeed at.

in spite of so many precautions that it had set their first jack once you get access to livermore labs you tony i'm 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 and place of their choosing.

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