[CPEO-MEF] media adv/Scientist Quits Weapons Work-Calls Lab Deceptive

[marylia@earthlink.net]

Contact: 
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 
 
 Media Advisory 
 
 LIVERMORE LAB SCIENTIST QUITS, CALLS LAB DECEPTIVE 
 
 Leaves High-Paying Job In "Stockpile Stewardship" Program, 
 Encourages Others To Refuse Work On Nuclear Weapons 
 
WHAT: 
Press Conferences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Visitors Center
in Livermore and the World Affairs Council in San Francisco 
 
WHEN: 
Thursday, March 15 
9:30 AM at the Livermore Laboratory, and 
NOON at the World Affairs Council (sandwiches and drinks provided) 
 
WHERE: 
The Livermore Laboratory Visitors Center is located on Greenville Road, about 2
miles south of I-580. 

The World Affairs Council is at 312 Sutter Street in San Francisco (also serves
as the new "home" of the San Francisco Press Club) 
 
WHO: 
Issac Trotts was recruited out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
to an $85,000/year position at Livermore Laboratory in the Visual Interactive
Environment for Weapons Simulation group in the Accelerated Strategic Computing
Initiative (ASCI) of the Stockpile Stewardship program. 
After graduating from U.C. Davis in 1999, Trotts received a Masters of Science
in Applied Mathematics at Brown University and worked as a Visiting Researcher
at MIT before coming to Livermore in September 2000. Trotts last day at
Livermore Lab was March 3, 2001. 
 
WHY: 
To expose deceptive recruiting practices at Livermore Lab, encourage other
scientists to refuse to work on nuclear weapons, and outline future plans by
Trotts, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations to conduct outreach to
counter Livermore Lab recruitment in Universities and within scientific
associations. Trotts will also release an open statement to current and
prospective employees. 
 
FORMAT: 
Trotts will conduct a briefing for reporters, answer questions and release an
open letter to Livermore Lab employees. Marylia Kelley, executive director of
Tri-Valley CAREs, the Livermore-based Lab "watchdog" organization, will explain
the group's campaign to encourage scientists and engineers to renounce work on
nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, a
chemist who left Livermore Lab last year to protest the construction of the
National Ignition Facility and the Stockpile Stewardship program will be on
hand to support Trotts. Other public interest groups will also participate. 
 
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Marylia Kelley 
Tri-Valley CAREs 
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 
2582 Old First Street 
Livermore, CA USA 94550 
 
<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there! 
 
(925) 443-7148 - is our phone 
(925) 443-0177 - is our fax 
 
Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000
global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear
weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. 
 

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