as it has mixed at a disputed border in northern concert the troops are dismantling the barricades on top by locals after they've failed to do it themselves. recent to the second biggest general strike in garry's and which has already seen violence and clashes with riot police reporters are promising protesters are promising another shows might outside parliament where lawmakers will later take the final vote on more punitive counts to service its record debt. and debt is hometown of sirte has reportedly fallen to leave his troops the city has been besieged weeks with thousands of civilians trapped in the crossfire of the new regime regarding it as a symbolic last step to victory of the khadafi. up next year and i'll see lectures in lethal weapons from the us university where america's nuclear arsenal.

he actually got the big money into this thing you know. the life of. the empire you know they're going to see this movie you see regence through in the management of it with his life you know this morning this morning and the universally is basically doing science. so cheerfully yang promised us on monday that you would personally deliver our demands to the u.c. board of regents i just want to read arguments terry once they're replaced so that you all know it's being forwarded on. says we call on the university of california for 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 level replaces no more in a program and most of the most is ongoing preparations to come back once only and that manufacturing also clearly violate article six of the nineteen seventeen nuclear nonproliferation treaty. it's almost inconceivable to realize that there were those who work in the world. only knew the. university of california from the inception of nuclear weapons has been right there in anbar. 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 played every nuclear weapon. from the days every 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 in most labs was selected by the army for. a place to assemble the first time to call them both 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 meet their versus the positions they had come to

a place that he would know about. u.c. berkeley had built up an unparalleled scientific organization within the united states at the u.c. radiation laboratory where sureness over orit's 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 clued in theoretical forms of physics that she robert oppenheimer was one of the premier scientists in the country in regard to you had oppenheimer who was kind of chosen as the scientific leader to get a scientific team robert oppenheimer was their pick because he was. not only a really sophisticated leading 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 the army

corps of engineers at the time. it had been a university involved girls felt that scientists wouldn't want to leaving university and go work for a private defense contractor in the middle of does or in the middle of nowhere. and they liked the whole sellable site in part because they were selling buildings already and they figured if you get started in those buildings. so here you had these universities. moving toward them both the first bombs and the first few. in one thousand forty five of course the states used those first atomic bombs. the first one that made it in here humor i guess it's thinking 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 unknown effects to subsequent generations and the second round was shot 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 new mexico at the original home of the project but this whole relationship. mentioned earlier should never existed in the universe and tension in after world war two about meeting for he said it was to

truman it. robert sprawl president of the universe in california said i've had enough in mexico he told me and then bob's. they were worried about liability they were worried about the moral 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 the law there really wasn't any question from them. and as i pursued it was that you see about whether you see should run this or not i mean you talk about a guaranteed stream of revenue so it was a no brainer for the regions to. travel as 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 lawrence livermore national laboratory that was basically a pet project of christ lawrence and it was also a pet project of a guy named edward heller they lobbied the government to create the lawrence livermore laboratory of the government did create force the national laboratories so the u.c. naturally bikila entered up thirty two. what was clear at that time and is still currently considered to major reith slighting a couple of major reasons why they. did want to keep on the one hand they got the certain amount of money directly from allegedly managing the labs in fact they did for an. oversight but for lending their name to the peer project which is basically why the government wanted. to give a white coated scientific. or a to what is actually

a process like that of the final solution of the. in order to render any reason right. through this process they go. someone you probably know this because seven trillion dollars in the us since we need to see the truth. it's not a money you get the kind of money floating around there's a lot of people who trust the intent of keeping good position they're out to create a powerful universities as university administrators their goal is growth it's just like progression the road get bigger get more powerful bring in more revenue bring in more students believe that the readers see this as a success most of them as a successful business feel that is helping american national security. and that is you know just part of a national patriotic project but right thinking people would naturally support.

you see is run by the board meetings these twenty six individuals determine all of the major policies you know the structure of the institution as a whole that's grounds and buildings finance and missions policies. and of course the nuclear weapons officer is. eighteen of them are appointed by the governor and then seven of them are official members of the state bureaucracy that are outside of krefeld members of the board of regents the governor selects the regents and he tends to select guys were every once in awhile one and two but mostly guys who are big campaign contributors or who are allies

politically influential allies of of the governor ever since tuesday 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 as regent because then sort of as. a reward if you well for a service to the governor service of the state. you see we don't serve basically the economic leaders of stick hell for any of these guys who are the directors most often of the major industries that are probably california in any 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 dominates the. goings on the circles generally composed of the. chair of the regions in the past chair the president 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 in primi corporation both of whom received construction contracts to rebuild iraq after u.s. imperial forces level that country on the other hand richard long as the chairman of the board of regents who was managing the national nuclear weapons labs are a lot of business connections can mean 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 schwarzenegger and paul walk there is a use in region it's got sort of connection that gets people appointed and you say region. the large body of people at the university are reaching us every day said asking them and trying to get them to understand some of the problems of the university fundamentally and yet the regions they are they don't listen i sense

they serve our rank and file people on the ground the university and 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 and the insight to recognise that the best thing if they truly care about how to listen nuclear weapons is to end their management of 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 a long term change in universities cannot be affected by people who is it is a bit of a crowded institution it has to be worked through back channel bureaucratic methods which is how normally operates or through public pressure i was i was thanking god because he

was who he was i fear i truly do think the primary and i and the community. was the first time i was thinking thank. you was. the old phrase that you see. campaigns like you seen it for free came together. and the early part of the two thousand the sun especially when up so the iraq war when we started the campaign we believed 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 lands 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 see student because i'm you know essentially a part of this machine. that they have the power to stand up and say be part of this machine i'm not ok with the way that she is running. that. i am movement need someone to sort of work against and that incredible unfairness of the u.c. regents is the perfect target for broad based student. social movement.

in the main it sounds like our ultimate goal is just to me if you see nuclear free but everyone has been involved with the senior leader. as a nuclear movement with and you see. i've yet to meet one person who thinks that's the whole goal. we all tend to agree that the actual goal is the abolition of nuclear weapons we 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 change movement in the united states and around the world in least in modern times have almost always been led by people. and so young people.

and students have a significant role to play this way students have been the backbone of some of the most powerful movements in the right history the civil rights movement the free speech movement these are the forces of history that we learn about now and i think that students have just as much power as they did. and it turns out that our going to school. to something that is as important as this let's 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 the further the state is supposed to further every single one of us we divest that institution from nuclear weapons we need to completely make the split the students could be the spirit 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 at the university of california awakened and helped lead the movement for u.s. leadership for nuclear weapons free world. if you look at just how much the movement has grown in my four 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 plus what was going on with the university and it seemed almost like it's like when i was at the club i had this amazing secret and we just leave her on campus and look at each other and go. you know and i know what's going on and everyone out.

from the seventy's eighty's and ninety's there were questions about whether the university should. read age on the weapons are records as the center court

and physical and they can somebody so you know which is the faculty program and somebody said. something about this whole range when it was the university of california is not going to let me do it is simply fine when you're in the literature. i think there's one famous line with this that i describe the university oversight of the laboratory is being sold permissive as to be nice sentients universe in 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

a. number of bizarre terrible accidents up there. every six weeks or so there'd be something happening that this had of had a bad effect on the health effect on somebody. on at least one person. i don't know say it was almost is not operating to nuclear industry safety standards they actually found that ever more loud 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 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. good. your radio voice all over the morning is on fire they were worried that there would be an empty critics however in the more senior a number because it was completely out of control as a community we were extremely lucky that there wasn't just stepping even larger criticality. but it really illustrates the extreme houser of. nuclear weapons development activity i met one young man who was rife died in her late twenty's and there was this high school sweetheart. she had skin cancer and she lived across the street from a park that they call big trees. but a lot of the people in livermore call it plutonium park because for decades.

the release plutonium to the city sewage so they're in big trees park here in livermore and when the e.p.a. came here and took the soil sample from right over there they found in the city which is a church. they found elevated levels of plutonium that obviously came from livermore laboratory. as far as the publisher the and accidence. yeah i would say that it at each lab we've 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 weight 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. people were careless and their safe so their handling of classified and materials and information. at livermore most of it was when the question was raised for that reason the university fought hard to keep keep control of it rather than letting it go and 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 a lot of people are. nuclear plants you know which are the. primary pits twenty in primary the first stage both from a nuclear weapon. 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 livermore lab knew almost a year in advance and knew to within two hours of when the mock terrorists would arrive and get the mock terrorists were able to carry out their to mean of japhet terrorists came in. terrorist came in and succeeded in some things that we didn't really want them to succeed at all in spite of so many precautions. their first jack was to get access to livermore labs the 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 that so that they could detonate a bomb out a later time in place of their choosing.

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