e.p. thompson once said that it was misleading to say that the soviet union in the united states had military industrial complexes he said it was more accurate to say that they were military industrial complexes. in the u.s. casey could just as well have said military industrial i condemn it given the role of the university of california where you see as a very important wall with and the military industrial complex some goes fire is calling it the military industrial academic complex you see became involved in a general context of universities becoming more tightly involved in motor industrial complex during world war two the people who ran harvard the people who ran. the people who ramberg really. all of these people were basically. realizing it was in their interest to. see the tops themselves in more permanent ways to the military the you see has received billions of dollars over the years so the federal government put it into the nuclear weapons development that's happened at these laboratories and it's basically served as the holes in a lot of groups that legitimates the weapons in the