- Overview
- Essay
- UT and Los Alamos
- The UT/Lockheed Martin Bid Team for Los Alamos
- Democracy in Nuclear Decision-Making
- Factsheets on UT and Los Alamos
- UT Watch articles on LANL
- Los Alamos Taskforce
- Los Alamos National Laboratory memorandum
- A Primer on the DOE Nuclear Weapons Labs Bidding Process
- Atkinson to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- The Los Alamos 'Criminal Culture'
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- UC President Robert Dynes Speech, 04/29/03
- Renewable Energy Programs at Other Texas Schools
- Biological
- Total Information Awareness at UT
- UT's DoD contracts
- Federal Grants to Science and Engineering
- More money for research
- UT Guns for Sandia Nuke Labs
- The Socio-Economics of Conversion from War to Peace
- University Research, Industrial Innovation, and the Pentagon
The Los Alamos 'Criminal Culture'
On Monday, October 18, 2004, former Los Alamos employees Scott Alexander and Peter Bussolini plead guilty to mail fraud and conspiracy to commit a felony as part of an agreement reached with the prosecutors, who had dropped 26 other charges against each man.
Here is a list of what they bought with taxpayer money:
| 5 | Genesis Gold barbeque gas grills |
| 1 | 19 Panasonic television/VCR combination set |
| 4 | Cobra 75 WV CB radios |
| 3 | 30 Watt solar panels |
| 3 | automatic double gate openers w/ remotes |
| 2 | Wyoming saws |
| 8 | picnic tables |
| 4 | sage-colored Cabela Deluxe Arm Chair |
| 38 | chamois shirts |
| 15 | pairs of thinsulate gloves |
| 152 | assorted knives, including 8 SOG M37 Seal Pup Knives |
| 13 | motorcycle helmets |
| 12 | headlamps |
| 5 | ULT Command Center monitors |
| 24 | camping lanterns |
| 4 | olive drab ATV covers |
| 1 | Carhart XXXL coat |
| 3 | pair New Balance hiking boots |
| 15 | sleeping bags |
| 4 | sleeping pads |
| 4 | reclining loungers |
| 4 | Portable Buddy Heaters |
| 6 | parkas |
| 5 | Portable Catalytic Heaters |
| 4 | Pocket Chain Saws |
| 4 | Deluxe Ratchet Pruners |
| 6 | knife-sharpeners |
| 6 | Magellan Map 330M GPS units |
| 8 | pocket & micro torches |
| 3 | goretex jackets |
| 4 | stand-up heaters |
| 3 | pairs of Polarized Lenses |
| 4 | Rangesafe Ear Muffs |
| 4 | Ultimate 10 Hearing Protectors |
- adapted from http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001156.html
Fraud should be taken seriously, especially at a nuke lab like Los Alamos. But the question for UT administrators is: What could you possibly do differently than University of California in this situation? What safeguards could you put in place?