European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At carefully guarded Livermore Laboratory in scientists Are proud of their work on the Neutron by Robert Lindsey new York the residents of a sem Rural City of Are looking Back these Days on one of the most successful Alameda county fairs in there looking Forward to using the news of the blackbirds every year about this come Back and make Dave bombing runs on anybody who gets too close to their nobody is talking about the Neu tron other things seem More important evermore lathe Home of the Neutron the subject of angry debate in u is Proba Bly better known As the City where h kidnapped school children from Chowc Lla were hidden a year ago in a burled moving Van or for its feisty City Council despite a Strong builders had initiated one of californian toughest slow growth were not a City of said the Helen whose like thou Sands of other people in works at the the lab i the University of Cau Fotuai Law rence Livermore a source of some of the most fearsome weapons Ever fair land by and a place that to regarded by official Washington As a Nauval resource tit Ellal to producing the of weapon needed to deter an Tot my unclear a few years evermore got some attention when a group of scientists from the lab urged the Day to build nuclear fallout shelters for All nothing Ever came of despite the secrets that occupy mens at the Onescu remile Laboratory just our de town a guarded fortress in a bucolic sating amid some of californian Best White wine vineyards Livermore is Middle it votes complains of High and worries about air among residents in the growing City who do not work at the commuting to jobs As far away As san so Miles to us Tirsell said the towns development of nuclear weapons is not a topic of Coffee i think its like being next to any other Federal in people who work at the lab Are your friends and u is a company and the product is nuclear the High concentration of scientist at the lab in than boo have doctorate degrees is said to have helped Spur develop ment of an outstanding Public school salaries of the senior professional at liver More average r800 a month and go up to a when articles have appeared in the local newspaper about the Neutron bomb the editors Nave usually attached a Small notice that the weapon was believed to have originated in liver just As a local newspaper elsewhere might pay attention to a local athlete who was competing in a Distant you cant Stop John manager of the local chamber of said of the debate Over the Neutron in not a these thing Are necessary to protect a democratic you can walk Down a Street and Strong pointed to a table of figures Hal showed the Laboratory brought the local Economy More than 110 million monthly in wages any businessman who sees figures Tike tone is not going to Campaign against the h has been w years lint toe Laboratory began to change what was Hen a sleepy farm at the the atomic Energy commission was concerned about soviet Progress in nuclear weapons and wanted a second source of weapons to provide with the original weapon research Center at los in the Manhattan project during world War the univ realty of California managed part of the coun try tint atomic Fomb development at los Exmore it a named for Ernest a Pioneer nuclear physicist Al the univer sity million yearly to manage the indent acuity groups pro test the Ulve Liyi close affiliation with weapons twice a group called the University of California nuclear weapons Laboratory conversion project have picketed the evermore la partly be Caus of such David the University res Lenl Baa appointed a faculty student Commil Erci consider whether u is appropriate for the University to continue managing these Laborati three times before since similar studies have been and the decision has always been made to continue the Livermore researchers Best known achievement was reducing a thermonuclear bomb in 195ft to a site Small enough to be carried in the submarine launched Polaris missile since it has devel oped the warheads Cor most strategic about half of the labs employees work in non weapons including efforts to harness fusion Power for peaceful uses remains the primary research working with the Sandl a Western electric subsidiary that employs boo people at Liv the usually competing against a rival team at los design new their design is turned Over to corporations such As Rockwell Monsanto and Bendix Hal make components for the bombs and warheads at Points around the these components Are eventually assembled into bombs and warheads at a government owned Plant near Amo workers at the pvt More Laboratory Are not saying much these about the controversy Over Ribeir Taw a dryly the w7t mod ills a warhead for the tactical missile that radiates relatively Large amounts of lethal that causes proportionally ranch lean blast damage than other nue tear among some of Tho the debate appears to have caused a mixture of Eon Cern and there has been amusement Over the sudden publicity Given to what to them is old work on such weapons has been under Way some officials there appear to have been lobbying persistently for deployment of such weapons for some time for Many work specifically on us w70 mod i has been under Way for More than some senior officials at Lawrence Are reported to be highly upset about the recent disclosures alerting the soviets about u a work on the new at the same like craftsmen in any line of work who have done something new and they Are proud of the Neutron Livermore is a place where what has been called the unthinkable nuclear warfare is thought about in the to the people who live nuclear weaponry is the economic foundation of the the stars and stripes Page 15