Does UCs management of weapons-related activities contribute to human well-being?
Comment: There appears to be no debate about the relevance of this criterion of public service. If UC involvement with Laboratories, which are responsible for work on weapons of mass destruction, does not contribute to human well-being, then the activity is clearly not appropriate for the University. President Clinton has determined that the United States will participate in the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty if, and only if, the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship (SBSS) program can maintain the nation’s nuclear weapons safely and reliably– based on above-ground laboratory testing, without actual detonation of nuclear weapons. Contrary to the suggestion of the Galvin Report to phase out weapons-related activities at LLNL and consolidate them elsewhere, President Clinton has also determined that weapons-related activities in direct support of this mission will continue at LLNL as well as LANL. Thus, while the weapons mission is smaller than it was at th
