November 2, 2007

'Immoral' Weapons and Academe

To the Editor:

Recent news indicates that ongoing mismanagement issues continue to plague the Los Alamos nuclear weapons facility co-run by the University of California ("U. of California Fined for Security Breach,"The Chronicle, October 12).…

What's even more dangerous than the university's mismanagement of Los Alamos, however, is its "good" management of the facility: researching and designing hydrogen bombs and producing nuclear-weapons components such as plutonium