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relationship versity you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single long nuclear weapon inside a arsenal was designed by university of california. we don't warm go. to the person you tell us or you know who was selected as the clock struck because the army needed scientists to leave their earthly positions. a group of protesters interrupted a university of california border regions meeting to demand the school's ever tries with the nation's nuclear weapons program.
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with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines comes a report. and then when people started digging in deeper and deeper they discovered that. a lot of things had been lax in the security front i can go through the guard station here to access t. eighty three and my ford ranger truck and i will not be stopped i will dwell you briefly stop you get waited for there is no search of those vehicles. that have hundreds of pounds of plastic and my vehicle and once in two years three i can park
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a pretty much anywhere i want. they were pressed and pressed and stuff they use they are practiced with this week and the rug right now never more putting together a new feature to kneel down three in the people you're building that very building where the mock terrorists were able to get access and they're going to be experimenting with pouring that one tony you know and we're. trying to do fellow robotics for a production line for a full scale manufacturing capability out los alamos to make the plutonium yes there n.s.a. is requiring the los alamos laboratory to ramp up the production and plutonium it's sort of
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a compound and functional bronze they were very proud of having produced i was it ten or eleven last year or something and they want to produce something like eighty per year and you could ask why it's about poor you know nuclear weapons are just a nice way to get pork are nice because nobody can question them to doing me unless they don't have a security clearance and you know you can't grow up and say show me how you make your simple pincer because they won't let you see the people that run. you know very good friends industries in this country that are they are connected to people in washington and men are you know that's just. do you have a power of command over agency policy that cannot really be altered even by the president why we need more nucular weapons or even to maintain the current stockpile that we have and spend the resources money on that is beyond me i
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think those are political decisions and i don't think they are well thought out. by providence i just percolation from his office in the white house january seventh nineteen sixty one. good evening my fellow americans. three and a half million men and women i directly engage in the good basis tax. we only spend on military security alone no more than the net income of all of the united states corporation. we have been compelled to create a permanent army and industry
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a basket of bush in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwanted influence whether sought all runs off by the military industrial complex. the more classic version of the military industrial complex which is still very much a part. of the united states military and economy is refers more of human meshing industrial conglomerates corporations with the us military. and this serves as some people if they deserve the kind of the facto centralized state planning of the u.s. economy whereby industrial policy is determined by the defense department in the allocation of their you know several hundred billion dollar budget every year so long term decisions about where whole industries go in the united states is determined by the defense department there's an illusion that the united states and
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other western societies are markets. were based on free enterprise and some. that's only marginally true this you take a look at the poor. it's waste on the street to the pentagon controls about five hundred billion dollars of funding in a year and it uses that to control all of high technology industry the costs of the initial stages of technological development are all subsidized by the taxpayers through this system because the pentagon is publicly funded institution obviously you know half of the federal budget now is devoted to things that are either military or intelligence or homeland security and all of those bureaucracies feed or a lot of contractors and the people making large amounts of money and why would
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they want to stop why would they not want to feed at the trough anymore and british historian he. once said that it was misleading to say that the soviet union in the united states had military industrial complex and he said it was more accurate to say that they were military industrial complex and. in the u.s. casey could just as well with said military and thus trail i contend that given the role of the university of california do you see. as a very important war with and the military industrial complex from those fires calling it the military industrial academic complex you see became involved in the you know general context of universities becoming more tightly involved mostly that's what pop ups during world war two the people who ran harvard the people who ran out. the people who ramberg really. all of these people
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were basically. realizing it was in their interest. to let's hash themselves in more permanent ways to the military the you see has received billions of dollars over the years for the federal government put it into the nuclear weapons development that's happened at these laboratories and it's basically served as the ultimate luxury that legitimates nuclear weapons in the united states now this is interesting the scientists at the laboratories. benefit from the university of california man asleep in the sense that the university of california provides a fig leaf of academic respectability for their design of weapons of mass destruction the. labs don't like to say here to serve on the side labs we create that knowledge of armageddon that's not how the solar cells way they
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sell themselves they serve it we are all type purpose national science laboratory. work on everything from the human genome project to helping to offset global warming to all kinds of other than i talk to her on the science and we also need. the weapons. you know the. university is basically doing science it so happens that eighty percent of their research and funding. that the department of energy provides them with is for their weapons programs. the weapons laboratories are incredibly powerful navin interests on behalf
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of nuclear weapons development and i look at that phenomenon as being part of something that the generalist loss for the us mumford called the new pentagon of power that emerged around the time of world war two and that he recognized there was a new priesthood. within the ruling elite of the united states that new priesthood was scientists elite scientists like nuclear weapons scientists especially the labs come up with ideas and sell them to the military there's a kind of idea that the customer you know wants this the customer wants that and the customer being the military but historically it's the labs that have won by a large group of the ideas and then they get the customer to be interested in here you are you're in a position where you're the only people would have the nuclear weapons design expertise you could your would be you would be. about what you consider the nuclear
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you can speculate about the russians and their nuclear weapons that was wrong so you're in your literacy and you're controlling your own money supply is pretty nice you don't have absolute control over particular hell what more control over it than you ought to have it would be really hard to overestimate the historical influence that the us nuclear scientists have had on the global proliferation of nuclear weapons you see scientists had been some of the most outspoken advocates of the nuclear weapons program. a very key moment arrived during president reagan's administration when president reagan was on his way to a summit with the soviet premier corba chap to discuss a comprehensible elimination of nuclear weapons by those two states and by the world. and hey do you see nuclear weapons scientist edward. successfully
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lobbied president reagan and convince president reagan not to keep us edward teller you see scientists say we need to continue and in fact expand the nuclear weapons program. during a trial or actually say later from a committee to that there was no possibility of killing more than if he put it on the border or up a year later he had a cell phone to consider the possibility that from a destroy all advanced life on earth if you think crazy nuclear weapons policies it isn't that they're doing that they are the while service to the deal mean the deal would be and they're simply making nuclear weapons which is what they're why we're the oil service they are making crispus. because it keeps nuclear weapons forward as being right these are precious you mustn't stop
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using these things because if you. you budget might come down eat lines jr well so it was like you see it really worked and senator that is he's office for many years as a function as his laboratory legislative aide. but actually it was interesting california where people. working as a staff in a powerful senators are. so pete lines drop more. tire resources of thought will solve that and the other labs that feed it to community from within his office. it's a lot of copper. right now you've got some people whose purpose whose whose sole standard interest is to maintain. nuclear weapons as a viable option. that is their own selfish interest even though you and i would say
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that if there's if there's any rep and on earth right now that puts her star society or risk it's nuclear weapons because they can bring our six sided crashing down one morning at the end of the cold war there was a hope that at least a coup or port of sleep nuclear threats would be reduced me eliminated namely soviet american confrontation with the very just solution of the soviet union u.s. leaders saw an opportunity not to change the world in the direction of nuclear abolition which they could have and which you know many americans saw that as a possibility instead of doing or they thought the possibility of being ahead from monic world empires such with world had never seen. issue of nuclear weapons is kind of dropped off the public radar a lot of ways because the u.s. population doesn't. buy nuclear weapons and people thought the
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nuclear program. disappear that was wrong the problem a nuclear war was never deliberate attack by either side against the other and was never entirely the problem all open through. the problem of an accidental war launched by a full sort on alert forces still does exist. if you look over the history there have been. very close schools trust but actually we don't have the russian records but we have the us rico out of the worst record that it's almost i mean there's been a shift change dozens if not hundreds of cases were automated response systems were on the third of launching a missile strike. when human intervention for granted and human intervention means like a minute or two of. these things you're right. destroying the world and it could
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happen to not by accident or by computer error or by hackers or by an ordinary fallible human being they say america has five know how powerful makes phone fun it's true that making. and rush got two and a half thousand and when you think about the fact there are only two hundred forty major cities in the northern hemisphere there's such a redundant think there are forty eight type of york as we speak and indeed if you look at the situation in the world today it's very gray maybe the danger is. more so now you know in nano wallerstein with the sociologist who. has written a lot about globalization and he said that he thinks that. you know in the next twenty years there will be twenty new nuclear states. he sees the end of the cold war is actually an opening up for mass proliferation of nuclear weapons nuclear material and the expertise has to come dispersed in the world so widely by. at this
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point we are i think on the verge of widespread proliferation the belief that the threat of nuclear were sort of stream of seriousness standard of my own leading strategic on most pick say robert mcnamara a former state trooper friends with. under the terms of office and he thinks his estimate is that it's not only the threat but it's a human cost of the haka with any international weight tense situation and. phase out a situation wave of weapons and being honest. is going to be more nations going for nuclear weapons especially because the united states and russia still have them and still use them. to try to. try to intimidate smaller nations. like what we're doing in the world right now running around the world. were
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threatening people with weapons that we have been going to. move off the fire of helicopters and shoot decision missiles of people who are. the only balance that comes into that is when they all sort of hold the truckers are you also are you still here right once you're reduced to equal weaponry then you are to talk. probably less just great for killing people. here we are in the position of trying to urge the most of the countries of the world except for nine. not to have a single nuclear weapon. while we're only telling them we intend to keep thousands indefinitely with them and we will not assure them we will not use them against them were in effect making a threat. the way the united states particularly is behaving it is providing incentives to other countries to develop nukes. they look at the
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case of iraq united states have accused iraq of having nuclear arms and exactly. the didn't have nuclear arms and i ensure lee denies states knew that he wouldn't have attacked it if it did have nuclear arms but on the other hand north korea actually developed nuclear arms and the united states negotiated for the demonstration to the world of having the nuclear weapons they threw a lot thing for from us for us that's the real actual attack. what is the united states really number one. on shelves. where nobody can come close to. dominance or love. food growing oil production. in the capital with only one. amount of. problems on the left through the insiders and the insiders on the whole are committed to the us empire.
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and to run the world. they want nuclear threats and so long as the leaders in the us are are committed to the use of nuclear weapons the rest of the world is going to keep theirs or get their. and the prospects for human survival are not crazy. and call the shots i've been using in researching of this university forty three years. and i've learned so much in a way to be employed or to use the system and enjoy it and it has the added weapons for the likelihood. i think it's absolutely wrong for any university to be involved in making weapons of mass destruction weapons that are
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illegal under international law and weapons that by any definition of morality are immoral weapons that kill indiscriminately weapons that could destroy civilization ok i seriously stuff think about it occurred to sedation if we're going to ration of tell us how to exercise chance of survival universal from pressing forward putting. it in juvenile understanding and doing it to because the topics are worth pursuing. we should not be doing it because of external institutional pressures from citizens and these are the results we want. solutions not at the bidding of the state or of corporations or of any other group and so it is from the investigating the frontiers of understanding and trying to
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swim and with careful attention from huge consequences were. i know people off there who know lines like cone filters and. i think we're trying to work out what parts of the search of the nation succumb to such a move. in the same slot my role from dressed up because it's not their will to make us a. problem for. them or rate back to all the things we really choose in terms of an earth. they're all saying it's not my rules of rest time and money. and destruction she said yes you can be sure. and he didn't miss were you think you. can in the. us today you won't be free of testimony of survivors from the future
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take now making up a good. that will happen. rather is more of course martin is a foreigner's writer writes troops and guns the troops who were going to sell the facts and who. were doing these things. you know concerning and so with the use of the really. serious ethical and moral issues. i think it's one of the most immoral and ethical institutions in the country. they want more investment they want more money thrown down the block whole nuclear weapons development they want to expand the nuclear weapon labs they want to continue the program and they've been advocates of this since the very beginning of this program and so it's up to us it's up to us those of us who have a conscience and who are watchdogs to stand up and say no because if we don't do it
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no one will. but. the syrians are meeting next thursday and san francisco. we're going there on my. site. we really care and we're going to put our next call. and tell people that we need to be to be democratize and we need to start building their weapons. the students have a right to demand that they receive that into our city. we don't warm. well we need in this field. are more people with fresh eyes. because there's so
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much to be out. there already. a group of protesters interrupted a university of california border regions meeting to demand the schools sever ties with the nation's nuclear weapons program it's time to my principles for long it's very embarrassed to see an open to the first to be blamed without lying because if your. are for. her why. i must. know. i've. i've. i've. been. there since. with them soon.
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