I was a Berkeley grad student and share your obsession with the Manhattan Project which is why I follow you. My lab was across courtyard from Seaborg’s lab. I now live 1 block from Oppie’s birthplace. Would love to read your thesis!
When I was an undergrad at UC Berkeley, some years back, I was really surprised to learn about how closely connected the UC was to nuclear weapons. In retrospect it was sort of hidden in plain sight. I ended up writing my honors thesis on "Berkeley & the Bomb," and got hooked...pic.twitter.com/4lxiLul31T
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The thesis wasn't that great, esp. in retrospect! :-) Rushed undergrad work. Someday I'll find an excuse to turn it into something worth reading. If I had been writing popular things when the UC lost most of the lab contracts in 2006, that would have been a good opportunity!
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Hidden in plain sight is a good way to put it. I learned a lot more about those interconnections when I was doing my PhD at Berkeley.
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have you ever read the site safety "lessons learned" documents from Livermore? Jesus, who needs horror fiction. Here's a relatively tame one: https://lasers.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/nif-workshops/laser-safety-officer-2014/9-2_mike-woods.pdf …
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I took a course at UCSC (10+ years ago) called "UC and The Bomb." Pretty dope to say the least.
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And when I was an undergrad at UCSC during the waning but still dangerous days of the Cold War (way back in the early-to-mid 1980s), I remember regular protests against UC's involvement. Its motto,"Fiat Lux," should only refer to the light of knowledge, not the light of the Bomb.
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I had a similar experience as a grad student at Berkeley. I ended up researching connections between a Berkeley professor named Joseph Hamilton and radiological warfare, and wrote an article about it in the Berkeley Science Review: http://groverlab.org/assets/all-the-easy-experiments.pdf …
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LLNL creeps me out every day
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Calutrons came from CALifornia. Lawrence and Berkley.
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I also went to UCB and of course one waled in the shadows of the Giants, Oppie, Lawrence and I also worked at LBL
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