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he actually got. money into the thing you know. make. sure it's a. useless so you lied to. me are you going to buy into their view to see if you see regions true in the management of the weapons we know this morning and this morning 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 i just want to read over to the stairway one here briefly so that

you all know what's being forwarded are. we call on the university of california for the pretense to withdraw fully and immediately from their contracts to manage the us alamos national laboratory and lawrence livermore national laboratory on the grounds that the reliable replies now for a program most of the most is ongoing preparations to come dark on tony and put manufacturing fault clearly violate article six of the nineteen seventy nuclear nonproliferation treaty. it's almost inconceivable to release them so we go through the world over. the years. the university of california from the inception of nuclear weapons has been right there and. you see since day one has been in charge of

researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and she some extent producing weapons every single nuclear weapon in cities arsenal was designed by university of california employee every nuclear weapon. from the days of the manhattan project in one nine hundred 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 z's site twitch is now will sell most lab was selected by the army for. a place to assemble the first time the ball that moved through the scientific problems associated with. the university of california was selected as the contractor to run the stuff that was considered important because the army

needed scientists to leave their versity positions and come to a place that basically we 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 warrants 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 if you robert oppenheimer was one of the premier scientists in the country in regard to you had oppenheimer who was kind of chosen and i was the scientific leader if you 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 the army corps of engineers in the time. it had been a university and all girls felt that scientists wouldn't want to leave the university and go work for a private defense contractor in the middle the desert in the middle of nowhere. and they liked the los alamos site in part because there were some buildings already and they figured they could get started in those buildings. so he had his university. moving toward them both the first bombs and the first few of. the one thousand forty five players states used those first kind of.

the first one was detonated in hear a human being i guess it's 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 i know that's two subsequent generations and the second bomb was dropped by the united states i'm not a saturday on august ninth one thousand forty five with that 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 i creating an institution called there was alamos national laboratory in the mexico at the original home of the one hand project but this whole relationship what i mentioned your earlier

should never existed in the universe and gentian. after world war two of one nine hundred forty seven was the terminator. robert scrawled president of university california said i've had enough of me mexico told me i'm an bulbs. they were worried about liability they were worried about the aural implications but that changed quickly after the cold war began. you see was then primarily researching designing the weapons and after you know like the first decade around the are there really wasn't any question from them not them and those upper circles 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 grab on its contracts and. then of course they were joined by a livermore whose purpose was to developing each 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 christ lawrence and it was also a pet project of a guy named edward heller they lobbied the government to create the laws the more laboratory the government did create one of the national laboratories so the use enough really became a matter of that facility to. what was clear at that time and they still care it's considered true major reason slighting a couple of major reasons why they. didn't want to keep on the one hand they got the certain amount of money directly from allegedly marriage and in fact they did very little. oversight or through lending their name to the current project we trust basically why the government want to. give

a white coated scientific. or to what is actually a process right out of the final solution of course. in order to lend their name there's a right. to this process they go. somebody you probably know this got seven trillion dollars in us since we do something truly. so out of money you get the kind of money floating around there's a lot of people with trust and chance a good position they're out to create big powerful universities as university administrators their goal is growth just like a corporation wrote get bigger get more powerful bring in more revenue bring in more students believe that the readers see this as a since 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 the right thinking people would naturally support.

all. you see is run by the border regions these twenty six individuals it's sort of all of the major policies in the structure of the institution as a whole that's grounds and buildings finance and missions policies. and of course the nuclear weapons laboratories. eighteen of them are appointed by the governor and then seven of them are of 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 government 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 border regions. and essentially at that appointment as regent has been sort of. a reward if you well for a service to the governor or service of the state. you see regional survey simply the economic leaders of stickball fornia these big guys who are the directors most top of the major industries. are probably california and they're

a good time. 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 of the top kind of dominates the. goings on the circles generally composed of the. chair of the regions 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 corine corporation both of whom received construction contracts to rebuild iraq after u.s. and period 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 a man for example arnold schwarzenegger's personal financier paul wachter who is second only to his wife in terms of people who have influence and sway over governor shorts and. paul walker is and you see regent it's that sort of connection that gets people printed and you see a region. the large body of people at the university are reaching out to the results and asking them and trying to get them to understand some of the problems

of the university fundamentally and they are there regions they and they don't listen. to the rank and file people on the ground at 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 regents have the courage in the insight to recognise that the best thing if they truly care about alison nuclear weapons is to end their management of the weapons right now they have 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 is it is a democratic institution it has to be worked through back channel bureaucratic methods which is how it normally operates or through public

pressure. i was. thank you don because he already there are others who these are the right spirit i produce the primary hands of our clients community. on the basis of us how things was. i was going to iraq i. was listening to the old fries thing you see and campaigns like you seen it clear frank hamsa gather and the early part of the two thousand sent especially when up so the iraq war when we started the campaign we believed that if students found out about this and 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 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 with the exact opposite. i try not to get involved in anything that i don't think i can happen impact and i feel it because 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 it was a part of this machine i'm not a king the way this thing is running. wild. a movement you need someone to sort of work again. and the incredible unfairness of the u.c.

rejects is the perfect target for bribe a student. social group. in the name it sounds like our ultimate goal is just an a.t.c. 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 change movements in the united states and around the world in at least in modern times have almost always been led by people. so young people.

students have a significant role to play basically students 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 the things are that our only chance to come 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 with the further the state 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 help lead the movement for u.s. leadership for a nuclear weapons free world. but . if you look at just how much the movement has grown in my four in the four years that i went to school i'm it's really amazing looking back because my freshman year is really started out and there were like five of us on campus to me like what was going on with the university and it seemed i was like this like you know i was like . i had this amazing secret and you just leave her on campus and look at each other

and go. you know and i know what's going on and everyone up. during the seventy's and eighty's and ninety's there were questions about whether

the university should. at age on the record start a curse as the center report which was one eight hundred seventy seven on which was a faculty reporter and then and somebody said. something about this whole range when it was the university of california was not going to live with you there's something for you when you're in the laboratory. i think is one famous line where there's a you describe the university oversight of the laboratory is being sold permissive as the and the 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. 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 the 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 this had of had a bad effect on the health effect on somebody. on at least one person. and in a safe as well so was he was not operating to nuclear industry sic disturbance 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 in p a four 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 i think your radio voice all over this morning is on fire they were worried that there would be sampling critics however in the more when you're a known because it was completely out of control as a community we were extremely lucky that there wasn't a second even larger criticality. but it really illustrates the extreme houser of nuclear weapons development activity i met one young man is right outside of 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 the people in livermore call it plutonium park because for decades from our routine the release plutonium to the city sewage so we're in big trees hard here in livermore and when the e.p.a. leave here and took a spoiled field for them right over there they down in the wages of jury. they found elevated levels of three tony and that obviously came from livermore laboratory. as far as the publicized the 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 go to the top priority it's 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 bad. that people were careless and their safety of their handling of classified and materials and information. at livermore someone was when the question was raised for that reason the university fought hard to keep keep control of it rather than letting it go if you went up there and actually noticed and actually could investigate there's. we would not be having. for instance in an area that's that a lot of people are on notice is that the laboratory does nuclear pits you know which of the primary are the pits in california 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 she livermore lab. member in our lab needed a mock terrorist for coming livermore lab knew almost a year in advance and knew to within two hours of when the mock terrorists would arrive and yet the mock terrorists were able to carry out their to mean a jap terrorist came in the would be mock terrorist came in and succeeded at some things that we didn't really want them to succeed at. in spite of so many precautions. if it did. their first captive was to get access to livermore labs to johnny m and to hold their ground long enough to create an improvised nuclear device

which is a not just a dirty bomb but in actual crude nuclear bomb their second to object to it but 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 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. which right if you live. from dallas to shoot inside.

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