UC Should Forsake Its Nukes  By David Krieger MinutemanMedia.org
Friday June 04, 2004  We’ve all heard about the inspections that
took place in Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction and
programs to make them. As we know, none were found in Iraq. 
That wouldn’t be the case if the inspectors were to come to the
University of California at Berkeley. They would find that
programs to research, design, develop, improve, test, and
maintain nuclear weapons have been going on under the auspices
of this university for more than 60 years. They would find that
the University of California provides oversight to the nation’s
two principal nuclear weapons laboratories: Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. They
would find that today these weapons laboratories are engaged in
attempting to make new, more usable nuclear weapons: “bunker-
busters” and mini-nukes.   For a fee, the University of
California has provided a fig leaf of respectability to the
research and development of the most