UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program: Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over
From a 2004 Leuren Moret article:
In a stealth takeover by the Carlyle Group, facilitated by five admirals, the 61-year-old University of California management contract for the Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear weapons labs will be transferred next year to the University of Texas, where the military and the Carlyle Group will have control. [The management contracts have actually been split. Various, newly-formed LLCs have taken control. The Livermore contract is in the RFP stage as of the summer of 2006.]
A new “ramping up” of the nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the highest level ever - even higher than during the Cold War – extending nuclear weapons into outer space, into the very atmosphere that makes life on earth possible, and with no “real” enemy in sight.
Admiral Linton Brooks, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under DOE, informed California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and the UC Regents that the management contract for the nuclear weapons labs would be put up for competitive bid for the first time, with the award to be made in 2005.
When a Regent asked if it would be for all the labs or just Los Alamos, he replied that it would be for Los Alamos. Later another Regent questioned him again, and this time he said, “It would be inconceivable for just one lab.”
He requested a competitive bid from UC, but the Regents were now leery of the politics involved, and Brooks was challenged by a fiery Bustamante. The lieutenant governor demanded to know why UC should waste millions of dollars preparing a bid when the University of Texas was the most favored institution to get the award and had a member on the blue ribbon panel making the award decision.
Admiral Brooks also informed the Board of Regents that “we’re back in the bomb business” because Los Alamos had just produced the first plutonium “pit” since Rocky Flats closed down. He indicated that they would be making “mini-nukes” only, and nuclear weapons testing would start at the Nevada Test Site in 2005.
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For those who haven't seen Fahrenheit 911 (and I suggest you do), The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm with more than $30 billion of equity capital as of 2005. It is the only big name private equity firm based out of Washington DC, and is located about halfway between the White House and the Capitol. George Bush, Sr. was in attendance at a Carlyle meeting on 9/11/2001...who else was there? Members of the bin Laden family.
As for Linton Brooks...his statement that nuclear weapons testing would start at the Nevada Test Site in 2005, may shed some light on the flurry of speculation surrounding the June 2, 2006 test Divine Strake.
In a stealth takeover by the Carlyle Group, facilitated by five admirals, the 61-year-old University of California management contract for the Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos nuclear weapons labs will be transferred next year to the University of Texas, where the military and the Carlyle Group will have control. [The management contracts have actually been split. Various, newly-formed LLCs have taken control. The Livermore contract is in the RFP stage as of the summer of 2006.]
A new “ramping up” of the nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the highest level ever - even higher than during the Cold War – extending nuclear weapons into outer space, into the very atmosphere that makes life on earth possible, and with no “real” enemy in sight.
Admiral Linton Brooks, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under DOE, informed California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and the UC Regents that the management contract for the nuclear weapons labs would be put up for competitive bid for the first time, with the award to be made in 2005.
When a Regent asked if it would be for all the labs or just Los Alamos, he replied that it would be for Los Alamos. Later another Regent questioned him again, and this time he said, “It would be inconceivable for just one lab.”
He requested a competitive bid from UC, but the Regents were now leery of the politics involved, and Brooks was challenged by a fiery Bustamante. The lieutenant governor demanded to know why UC should waste millions of dollars preparing a bid when the University of Texas was the most favored institution to get the award and had a member on the blue ribbon panel making the award decision.
Admiral Brooks also informed the Board of Regents that “we’re back in the bomb business” because Los Alamos had just produced the first plutonium “pit” since Rocky Flats closed down. He indicated that they would be making “mini-nukes” only, and nuclear weapons testing would start at the Nevada Test Site in 2005.
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For those who haven't seen Fahrenheit 911 (and I suggest you do), The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm with more than $30 billion of equity capital as of 2005. It is the only big name private equity firm based out of Washington DC, and is located about halfway between the White House and the Capitol. George Bush, Sr. was in attendance at a Carlyle meeting on 9/11/2001...who else was there? Members of the bin Laden family.
As for Linton Brooks...his statement that nuclear weapons testing would start at the Nevada Test Site in 2005, may shed some light on the flurry of speculation surrounding the June 2, 2006 test Divine Strake.
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