Nuke U: How the University of California Is Helping to Blow Up the World

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http://www.truth-out.org/norman-solomon-nuke-u-how-university-california-helping-blow-up-world62093


On my way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory a few years ago, I found it listed in a New Mexico phone book—under "University of California."

Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation's top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California's public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business.

Sixty-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, the University of California imprimatur is an air freshener for the stench of preparations for global annihilation. Nuclear war planners have been pleased to exploit UC's vast technical expertise and its image of high-minded academic purpose.

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An official website of the University of California boasts that "UC has been involved in the management of these laboratories since their inception—a relationship spanning seven decades—as a public service to the nation." With a lab on the UC Berkeley campus included in the mix, "the three laboratories have a combined workforce of more than 21,000 and operate on federally financed budgets totaling more than $4 billion."
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the empire must have its bigger and ever better killing toys.

with the help of university students. peachy.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Its a major cash cow for the university and provides high paid jobs for faculty and students

[ensho]

2. so what - they are still in the business of war/destruction

nt

[L0oniX]

3. Duh! That's not all that goes on there. I tried to get a job there back in 1974.

They were into hi speed photography, geo-thermo energy and many other projects. Most of the bomb work was done in the early 50's. Edward Teller co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb went on to work with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Having been to LASL I can tell you that I saw where there "used" to be a lot of security. You couldn't even enter the town unless you had security clearance. Today anyone can live there and visit the lab. Actually that whole area is one of my favorite places ...it's a beautiful area.