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he actually got some. money into this thing you know. it. should still be on the list of. you know you got to buy into the thing to see if you see regence through in the minutes with it with him so i know this morning 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 argument is that everyone there break way so

that you all know it's being forwarded on. says we call on the university of california part of regents to withdraw fully and that media be 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 to our plutonium manufacturing also clearly violate article six of the nineteen seventeen nuclear nonproliferation treaty. it's almost inconceivable to realize that the we those who were the worst was over. the use of. the university of california from the inception of nuclear weapons has been right there involved. 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 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 los alamos lab was selected by the army for. a place to assemble the first time the fall of the book from 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 be there in the first of the positions they had to 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 which ernest old 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 clued in theoretical forms of physics that she robert oppenheimer was one of the premier scientists in the country in regard to you had often higham or was kind of chosen i was the science of the leader to pull together the scientific team robert oppenheimer was their pick because he was. not only you know 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 girls felt that scientist would want to leave and university and go work for a private defense contractor in the middle the desert in the middle of nowhere. and they liked the also almost sight and 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 . thousand nine hundred forty five of price states used those first atomic bombs.

the first one committed in here seem at all like a six nine hundred forty five. and one hundred forty thousand people more or less were incinerated or dead by the end of nineteen forty five tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of others injured and people today still suffering from radiation related illnesses an unknown if that's two subsequent generations and the second round was dropped by the united states and that a saturday on august ninth one thousand for you five with similar catastrophic results. that world war two came to an end rather abruptly and instead instead of ending the manhattan project benighted states government decided to make it permanent by creating an institution called the los alamos national laboratory in the mexico at the original home of the new hand project but this whole relationship what i mentioned to you earlier should

never existed and the universities gentian in after world war two one 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 bulbs. they were worried about liability they were worried about the moral implications but that changed quickly after the cold war began. you see was them 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 then and those upper circles of you see about whether you can 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 route out 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 bomb that destroyed the second i want to come to the lawrence livermore national laboratory that was basically a pet project of chris 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 the lawrence livermore national laboratory and so the you see naturally between the manager up facility to. what was clear at that time it is still clear at the kids that there are two major reasons why the a couple major reasons why they. did want to keep on the one hand they got the certain amount of money directly from allegedly managing the lead in fact they did very little oversight but for lending their name to that a fair project which is basically why the government wanted. to give

a white coated scientific. or a to what is actually a process right there out of the final solution. in order to lend their name as a writer. as officers they go. for money you can probably know this the seven trillion dollars of us since we are certain true. sort of money you can think of money floating around there's a lot of people with trust or each other and keeping good position they're out to create big powerful universities as university administrators their goal is great the corporation the ro get baby get more powerful bring in more revenue bring in more students believe that the reason see this as a since most as a successful business leader. that is helping american national security. and i met is you know just part of the national patriotic project the right thinking people

with national support. you see is run by the board of regents these twenty six individuals determine what all of the major policies and structure of the institution as a whole that's grounds and buildings and. missions policies. and of course the nuclear weapons laboratories. 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 congress up a board of regents the governor selects the regents and he tends to select guys were 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 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 board of the regions. and essentially at that appointment as regent has then sort of. a reward if you well for a service to the governor service of the state. and you see regions are 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 health board and i think it is hard.

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 dominates the. bones on the surface 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 corporation both of whom received construction contracts to rebuild iraq after u.s. imperial forces level that country on the other hand richard blom is the chairman of the board of regents who is managing the national nuclear weapons labs a lot of business connections that 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 walker is and you see the region it's that sort of connection that gets people appointed and you say region. the large body of people are being oppressed the 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 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 any insight to recognise that the best thing if they truly care about abolition nuclear weapons is to end their management of 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 training in universities cannot be affected by people who assume that it is again a chronic institution you have to be worked through back channel bureaucratic methods which is how it normally operates or through public

pressure i was. thanks guys he was who he was here i truly do think the primary community. was the cause of my feelings thank god. i was. right as the you see. campaigns like you see nuclear free games together. and the early part of the two thousand 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

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 you see nuclear free campaign because i feel very passionately that universities should educate and work for peace and justice sustainability in the commonwealth or in managing nuclear weapons labs the exact opposite. i try not to get involved in anything that i don't think i could 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 every part of this machine i'm not ok with the way this thing is running. i remove my need someone to sort of work against and that incredible unfairness of the u.c.

regents is the perfect target for a broad based student. social movement. point in the name it sounds like they're all to my goal is just to make use in 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. 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 profile came from movement in the united states and around the world in

least in modern times have almost always been read by people. and so young people. and students have a significant role could play to school 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 forces of history that we were on about now and i think that students have just as much power as they did. and the things are that our only chance to. do something that is as important as this is 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 the further the state is supposed to further every single one of us we divest that institution from the clear weapons we need to completely make the split the students could be the spear 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 my four in the four years that i went to school it's really amazing weapon back because my freshman year in three we started out and there were like five of us on campus like what was going on with the university and it seemed almost like it's like you know i was like. i

have this amazing secret and we just leave her on campus and look a certain go. you know and i know what's going on and anyone out. there are some seventy's and eighty's and ninety's there were questions about

whether the university should. manage columbus are the kurds as the center toward which was born they can simply say you know which of the faculty of programming can somebody said. something about the whole range when it was the university of california does not run the world like it is something for you when you're in the laboratory. i think there's one famous one with is that i describe the university oversight of the laboratory is being sold permissive as to be licentious university of california was sort of an absentee landlord that 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 then i had of had a bad effect on a health effect on somebody. on at least one person. and in a safe as it was almost is not operating to nuclear industry safe districts they actually found that at livermore lab they were storing plutonium in paint cans good 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 pull tony i'm in various forms. there was a pretty. good i think your radio voice all over the morning is on fire they were worried that there would be a sampling pretty hour in the morning you're a known because it was completely out of your own as a community we were extremely lucky that there wasn't just stacking even larger criticality. but it really illustrates the extreme houser of nuclear weapons development activity i met when young man whose wife died in her late twenty's and that was his 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 people in livermore call it plutonium park because it's livermore lab in the release plutonium to the city sewage so we're in big trees park here in livermore and when the e.p.a. leave here and took the soil sample them right over there again down in the top tier when she isn't sure. they found elevated levels of plutonium that obviously came from livermore laboratory. as far as the publisher the and accidents. yeah i would say that it and each lab we certainly had our share 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 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. people were careless and they're safe so their handling of classified and materials and information. at livermore most elements or 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 environment and we would not be happy. for instance i'm in an area that's that a lot of people are notices that the rubber trudeau's nuclear pits you know which of the the primary the pits being the twenty mm primary that is the first stage of

a thermo nuclear weapon. earlier this year two thousand and eight the department of energy sent a mom to hear her teeth she livermore in my. memory more 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 there to mean a jap to the terrorists came in the would be mock terrorist kind in succeeded at some things that we didn't really want them to succeed at. in spite of so many precautions that. their first job was to get access to livermore labs newtonian and to hold

their ground long enough to create an improvised nuclear device which is a not just a dirty bomb but an actual move grooved nuclear bomb their second to jacket that they also were able to carry out was to steal and they were using simulated tonio but essentially they were in the super block 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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