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 Militarization

The model example of military university collaborative research is the inception, design, and creation of the atomic bomb. Conceived and developed by University of California, the creation of the most deadly device ever made was a product of research funded by the military and conducted by an elite group of America's university scientists, professors, and graduate students.

The budget for 2004 from the DOE for weapons related activities will be of 6.4 billion dollars. The UC managed labs at Los Alamos (LANL) and Livermore (LLNL) will recieve a combined $2.5 billion dollars for weopons related research. That's 63% of the $4 billion combined budget the University of California management of the labs.

- Bidding for the Bomb Lab, Z Magazine, October 2003

- For more information go to the Fiat Pax web site: http://www.fiatpax.net

- To learn more about the history of militarization at US universities go to: The Militarization of America's Universities (2003) (PDF).

Funding at UC Berkeley:

Since WWII, DoD funding of scientific research, development, testing, and evaluation has remained the first priority of federal research funds. Major corporate sponsors at UC Berkeley are Lockheed and Northrop Grumman with $21 million in DoD Grants (source: 2003 Funding Report at UC Berkeley (PDF))

Institutions in Service of the Warfare State

Ranked in order of total DoD funding for FY 2000 (excludes additional funds from FFRDC's)
source: data adapted from NSF
  1. Johns Hopkins University $371,852,000
  2. Pennsylvania State University, University Park $103,398,000
  3. University of Texas Austin $73,248,000
  4. University of Southern California $73,248,000
  5. Massachusettes Institute of Technology $54,303,000
  6. University of Minnesota $41,993,000
  7. Stanford $37,637,000
  8. University of Washington $35,150,000
  9. Carnegie Mellon $30,978,000
  10. UC San Diego $30,991,000
  11. University of Michigan $28,248,000
  12. Utah State University $26,222,000
  13. UC Los Angeles $25,282,000
  14. Georgia Institute of Technology $25,085,000
  15. University of New Mexico $24,878,000
  16. Georgetown University $24,584,000
  17. UC Berkeley $23,556,000
  18. University of Illinois U.C. $21,535,000
  19. California Institute of Technology $19,930,000
  20. UC Santa Barbara $19,799,000
  1. Louisiana State University $19,630,000
  2. Cornell University $19,368,000
  3. Woods Hole O.I. $19,962,000
  4. Northwestern $15,400,000
  5. Mississippi State $15,290,000
  6. University of Florida $14,752,000
  7. University of Arizona $14,668,000
  8. University of Colorado $14,517,000
  9. Princeton $13,659,000
  10. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University $13,652,000
  11. University of Maryland, College Park $13,186,000
  12. Purdue University $12,731,000
  13. University of Pennsylvania $12,731,000
  14. Duke $11,944,000
  15. Boston University $11,610,000
  16. Harvard $11,591,000
  17. North Carolina State $11,552,000
  18. Ohio State $11,130,000
  19. University of Texas, San Antonio $10,608,000
  20. Vanderbilt $9,833,000

News Items:

- Classified Work Halted at Los Alamos July 15, 2004 (Daily Californian)

- University Laboratories Up For Grabs June 14, 2004 (Daily Californian)

- Nuclear bill just barely squeaks by May 21, 2004 (Oakland Tribune)

- Los Alamos Lab Loses More Data May 21, 2004 (Wired)

- Bay Area Lawmaker Attacks Weapons Program May 20, 2004 (KPIX-CBS-5 News)

- Concurrent bidding on nuclear lab pacts urged, Research council also recommends single manager May 18, 2004 (SF Chronicle)

- U.S. wants to remove plutonium from lab Security concerns at Livermore cited (May 8, 2004) SF Chronicle

- Group: Radioactivity high near lab (May 6, 2004) Contra Costa Times

- Opinion: Nuclear Weapons Exact a Terrible Price (May 4, 2004) Daily Californian

- Wilmot Hess -- versatile, controversial nuclear physicist (May 4, 2004) SF Chronicle

- The Military-Academic Complex: Who's the Real National Champion? (April 28, 2004) CommonDreams.org

- Livermore Lab May Lose its Nuke Reserves (April 28, 2004) Daily Californian

- Fears raised for safety of nuclear sites (April 27, 2004) CNN

- Letter's to the editor: Students Present Cases for Retaining Laboratories (April 24, 2004) Daily Californian

- The Oppenheimer Riddle (April 23, 2004) SF Chronicle

- Berkeley Campus Forum: UC Management of the DOE National Labs Video and Audio files
(April 21, 2004) Graduate Assembly

- Opinion: Should We Stay or Go? (April 21, 2004) Daily Californian

- Nuclear weapons bulk of study (April 13, 2004) Daily Texan

- Bid for Los Alamos may be combined (April 12, 2004) Daily Texan

- Professors Debate Morality of UC-Run Nuclear Weapons Labs (April 6, 2004) Daily Californian

- Three Reasons for the UC to get out of the Nuclear Weapons Business (April 5, 2004) Waging Peace

- Is biodefense work paving the way for bioweapons? (February/March 2004) Mother Jones

- Nuclear Bowl: Cal vs. Texas (February 4, 2004) - Wired News

- Environmental Groups Victorious as DoE Withdraws Approval of Bio-Warfare Facility at Los Alamos (January 26, 2004) - Nuclear Watch (PDF file ORIGINAL)

- UC President Visits Lab on Tour of UC Campuses (November 4, 2003) - The Daily Californian

- Regents Appoint Retired Navy Admiral To Head Lab Management (October 21, 2003) - The Daily Californian

- Four UC Berkeley Students Awarded Homeland Security Research Grants (September 29, 2003) - The Daily Californian

- US Defense Dept. sued on college recruitment (Sepetember 20, 2003) - New York Times

- The next generation of bombmakers (June 23, 2003) - San Francisco Chronicle

- Editorial: UC Regents Must Compete To Maintain Lab’s Excellence (May 2, 2003) - The Daily Californian

- Controversy over whether UC should be in bomb business (May 1, 2003) - San Francisco Chronicle

- Defense Department Awards Grants to UC Scientists (March 17, 2003) - The Daily Californian

- Boalt Students Protest Military Recruitment Policy (October 10, 2002) - The Daily Californian
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