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Managing Weapons Labs: Benefits, Costs, and Public Perception

This article explores the benefits and challenges of managing weapons labs, including financial implications, the role of faculty, and the public perception of UC as a manager. It also discusses the possibility of academic freedom in classified research settings.

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Managing Weapons Labs: Benefits, Costs, and Public Perception

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  1. Phillip Rogaway Dept. of Computer Science rogaway@cs.ucdavis.edu http//www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway 22 April 2004

  2. How do our students benefit from managing the weapons labs? How do faculty benefit from managing the weapons labs? What is required to make a bid to manage the weapons labs? … Do we make money managing the weapons labs? Could we be making more money than we are managing the weapons labs? How do employees at the weapons labs benefit from UC management? How much will it cost to bid to manage the weapons labs again? Talk about some morally-challenged questioning! Should UC team with an industrial partner in our bid to manage the weapons labs? … Can there be anything equivalent to academic freedom in the context of classified research? What is the role of faculty in managing the weapons labs? Does recent adverse publicity concerning incidents at LANL and LLNL call into question UC’s ability to manage the labs and the public perception of UC as a manager? …

  3. Source: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Japan. The Second Special Exhibition of FY 2002. http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/ Source: Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Assoc http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W80.html

  4. W80: 5—150 Kton, 290 lb, two-stage radiation implosion weapon Designed at LANL, being refurbished by LANL, LLNL, and Sandia. Source: The Nuclear Weapons Archive, http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/W80.html

  5. B61: 10—350 Kton, 700 lb, two-stage radiation implosion bomb. Designed at LANL, mods by LLNL and Sandia (mod 11 is our new earth-penetrating weapon) Source: globalsecurity.org — http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b61.htm

  6. Our Work Every nuclear weapon in the USA arsenal was designed by us at Livermore or Los Alamos. Source: globalsecurity.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/nuclear.htm

  7. Priorities in a Nutshell UC Budget 03-04 $5.5 trillion spent on nuclear weapons as of 1996. Source: Brookings Institute, http://www.brook.edu Source: UC Office of the President, http://budget.ucop.edu/rbudget/200405/contents.pdf

  8. DOE Budget for our Weapons Labs FY 2003 Scientific research comprises < 5% of the budgets. Source: US Dept. of Energy, http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/04budget

  9. Largest US Military Contractors (2002 revenue) Including non-DOE funding, UC is thought to be the 6th largest defense contractor in the USA, and perhaps the largest contractor of WMDs in the world Source: Defense News, http://www.defensenews.com/content/features/2003chart1.html and The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, http://www.stopthebombs.org/nuke/map.html US Dept. of Energy, http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/03budget

  10. But Wait.Everyone knows we don’t really manage the labs. We just lend our name to the enterprise. Exactly. Source: Hiroshima A-bomb photo museum, http://www.nvccom.com.co.jp . Interim Report to UCORP—Subcommittee on the Relationship between the University of California and the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore, and Los Alamos (Feb 03), http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/committees/ucorp/doessubcommittee.pdf

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