STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI)
1983
ECOCIDE
noun
destruction of the natural environment,
especially when deliberate.
STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI)
(Directed-Energy Warfare)
Roger E. Batzel
(Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1971-1988)
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ROGER E. BATZEL
(Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
1971-1988)
Roger Elwood Batzel (December 1, 1921 – July 29, 2000) was an American nuclear scientist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for over sixteen years, from 1971 to 1988.
Lawrence Livermore
Batzel joined the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore in its second year in 1953 as an assistant division leader with the chemistry department, and became its head in 1959. (Shortly after Ernest Lawrence’s death in August 1958, the Berkeley and Livermore labs were renamed “Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.”)
In 1961, Batzel became associate director of chemistry and was also named associate director of nuclear testing, a position he held until 1964. He was associate director of chemistry and space reactors from 1966 to 1968 and associate director of chemistry and biomedical research in 1969.
Batzel was appointed as the newly renamed Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s sixth director on December 1, 1971, his 50th birthday. He was its longest-serving director and was one of the nation’s leading authorities on nuclear weapons, advising four U.S. presidents. Under his guidance, the Laboratory broadened its mission from primarily nuclear weapons to many areas of applied science, and he stepped down in April 1988 at age 66.
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