The Regents in their current set of meetings will hear a review of the activities of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, run by UC:
https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept26/n1.pdf.
Edward Teller, the "father of the H-Bomb," was a co-founder of LLNL. And, of course, UC also has a management role in Los Alamos. Both units are outgrowths of the WW2 Manhattan Project. Although there have been calls to divest from "military" enterprises, yours truly hasn't heard any recent calls to shed either or both of these UC involvements.* One might think that nuclear weapons are inherently "military." Just an observation...
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2026/03/watch-regents-meeting-of-march-17-2026.html.
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