Myths About Nuclear Energy and Global Warming
Detailed Biography of Dr. Bill Wattenburg
UNIVERSITY PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Background Report and
Major Public Service Contributions by
Dr. Willard Harvey (Bill) Wattenburg
Research Scientist, Research Foundation
California State University, Chico,
and Consultant to the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Very few scientists in the U.S have contributed more to publi
More..c service and national security than W.H. (Bill) Wattenburg has done in the form of simple, sometimes bizarre, but very workable solutions to major national security and public problems. He was raised on a farm and construction job sites in northern California. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, under some of the great physicists of the day, including Dr. Glen Seaborg and Dr. Edward Teller. He was one of the youngest ever appointed to the Berkeley faculty after finishing his Ph.D at Berkeley. He became a lifelong colleague and friend to Dr. Teller. He worked in Dr. Teller’s group at the U.C. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the design and testing of nuclear weapons. At Livermore, he made a discovery of great importance to the underground testing of nuclear weapons and test ban treaty verification. For thirty years, he has had a second profession as one the most popular and controversial nighttime radio talk show hosts in the western United States. His weekly six-hour broadcasts reach millions in eleven western states.
Bill Wattenburg’s work in several fields and his publications in scientific journals are listed below. But the public and press know him best for his impressive and often bizarre solutions to highly publicized problems in our society. He typically does basic experiments on his own to prove that his ideas are feasible before he presents them to government agencies and the press. (He actually build a section of a four-lane freeway bridge out of surplus railroad flatcars using construction equipment to prove that freeways could be repaired very quickly after earthquakes. The California Dept. of Transportation adopted his design to open major freeways thereafter.) His public demonstrations often irritate bureaucracies that are left with no excuse to ignore his ideas when the public and the press already know that they are workable. In turn, he has demonstrated a profound impatience with slow-moving government agencies.
Typically, government agencies had failed to solve major problems after spending enormous sums of money and time before Wattenburg was asked to step in by top state and federal officials. His clever creations have saved many thousands of lives and untold amounts of public resources. Dozens of scientific journal articles and major newspaper stories have chronicled his exploits and accomplishments over the past thirty years.
Bill Wattenburg grew up on farms and worked with his father in the heavy construction industry before he was given a scholarship to U.C. Berkeley. He was appointed to the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, at the completion of his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and nuclear physics at the age of 25. He specialized in the design of digital computers for computations in nuclear physics. He took a leave of absence from Berkeley in 1962 to join the physics division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nuclear weapons “A Division,” where he worked on the initial designs of some of the nuclear weapons in the U.S. inventory today. He spent a year at the Nevada Test Site where he tested the warhead designs on which he had worked. There he helped develop and improve underground nuclear testing technology. He continued working at Livermore part-time after he returned to teaching at Berkeley in 1964. He has continued as an unpaid consultant to the Livermore Laboratory since 1975. In turn, the Livermore Laboratory has provided equipment and resources for many of Wattenburg’s scientific experiments described herein. Bill Wattenburg was the co-founder in 1966 (along with Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Donald Glaser) of Berkeley Scientific Laboratories. Wattenburg was the president of Berkeley Scientific Laboratories from 1966 to 1970 when he returned to university teaching and research.
It is significant that since he left the faculty at U.C. Berkeley thirty years ago, Bill Wattenburg has never taken pay of any sort from government agencies for his public service activities. He has assigned his most significant patents to the university. His often stated position is that the public gave him a free education at two great universities, California State University, Chico, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has said that he can well afford to return a little of the good fortune that the public provided to him.
He does most of his work today as a research scientist at the Research Foundation, California State University, Chico, and as an unpaid consultant for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Many times over the last 25 years he has teamed up with top scientists and engineers at the Livermore Laboratory to test and develop his solutions to national security problems. Dr. Wattenburg is still one of the most active scientists conducting experiments at the former Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Less..
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Good post
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "porsheman" (R)
Should this idiot be regulated?
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Sally7654" (B)
"Research Foundation, California State University, Chico". big laugh. Last time I was presented a simillar video here it was also from a group of so called "specialists".
I bothered to research the german members of that comittee and it turned out most of them werent even academically involved with the issue. Some were retired architects, other just engineers.
Read his CV, what the **** does he know.
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Simba1" (R)
21 december 2012
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Optimus-Prime" (B)
I bothered to research the german members of that comittee and it turned out most of them werent even academically involved with the issue. Some were retired architects, other just engineers.
Read his CV, what the **** does he know.
Dr. Bill's Resume
DR. BILL WATTENBURG
(WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG)
1980-PRESENT:
- RESEARCH SCIENTIST AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO.
- CONSULTANT, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY. FORMERLY STAFF MEMBER, PHYSICS DIVISION, NUCLEAR WEAPONS DESIGN.
- TALK SHOW HOST, "THE OPEN LINE TO THE WEST COAST" (SAT & SUN 10PM TO 1AM) KGO RADIO AM-810, AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO (SINCE 1972).
1965-1980:
- CO-FOUNDER OF BERKELEY SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1966) WITH DR. DONALD GLASER, NOBEL PRIZE, PHYSICS, 1960.
- PRESIDENT, BERKELEY SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES (1966-70).
- CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES (LATER, REORGANIZED AS COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTER SERVICES AND BAKTE BENNETT LABORATORIES, BERKELEY), 1970-1980.
- MEMBER, U.S. AIR FORCE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, 1967-70
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR DEFENSE SYSTEMS (DR. EDWAR TELLER)
1961-67:
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, U.C. BERKELEY, AND STAFF MEMBER, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, PHYSICS DIVISION.
- CONSULTANT: LOCKHEED MISSILES AND SPACE COMPANY
IBM CORPORATION GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
BELLCOM (NASA APOLLO PROJECT).
EDUCATION:
1961: Ph.D, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, U.C. BERKELEY.
1959: MASTER'S DEGREE, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, U.C. BERKELEY.
1958: B.S., ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
CHICO.
REFERENCES:
- DR. JOHN NUCKOLLS, FORMER DIRECTOR, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA
- MR. MICHAEL LUCKOFF, PRESIDENT, KGO RADIO, SAN FRANCISCO
- DR. EDWARD TELLER, HOOVER INSTITUTE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "aliveleak" (R)
I bothered to research the german members of that comittee and it turned out most of them werent even academically involved with the issue. Some were retired architects, other just engineers.
Read his CV, what the **** does he know.
Dr. Bill's Resume
DR. BILL WATTENBURG
(WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG)
1980-PRESENT:
- RESEARCH SCIENTIST AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO.
- CONSULTANT, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY. FORMERLY STAFF MEMBER, PHYSICS DIVISION, NUCLEAR WEAPONS DESIGN.
- TALK SHOW HOST, "THE OPEN LINE TO THE WEST COAST" (SAT & SUN 10PM TO 1AM) KGO RADIO AM-810, AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO (SINCE 1972).
1965-1980:
- CO-FOUNDER OF BERKELEY SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1966) WITH DR. DONALD GLASER, NOBEL PRIZE, PHYSICS, 1960.
- PRESIDENT, BERKELEY SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES (1966-70).
- CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES (LATER, REORGANIZED AS COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTER SERVICES AND BAKTE BENNETT LABORATORIES, BERKELEY), 1970-1980.
- MEMBER, U.S. AIR FORCE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, 1967-70
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR DEFENSE SYSTEMS (DR. EDWAR TELLER)
1961-67:
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, U.C. BERKELEY, AND STAFF MEMBER, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, PHYSICS DIVISION.
- CONSULTANT: LOCKHEED MISSILES AND SPACE COMPANY
IBM CORPORATION GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
BELLCOM (NASA APOLLO PROJECT).
EDUCATION:
1961: Ph.D, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, U.C. BERKELEY.
1959: MASTER'S DEGREE, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, U.C. BERKELEY.
1958: B.S., ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
CHICO.
REFERENCES:
- DR. JOHN NUCKOLLS, FORMER DIRECTOR, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA
- MR. MICHAEL LUCKOFF, PRESIDENT, KGO RADIO, SAN FRANCISCO
- DR. EDWARD TELLER, HOOVER INSTITUTE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
so where's the knowHow in that area?
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Simba1" (R)
I bothered to research the german members of that comittee and it turned out most of them werent even academically involved with the issue. Some were retired architects, other just engineers.
Read his CV, what the **** does he know.
Dr. Bill's Resume
DR. BILL WATTENBURG
(WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG)
1980-PRESENT:
- RESEARCH SCIENTIST AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO.
- CONSULTANT, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY. FORMERLY STAFF MEMBER, PHYSICS DIVISION, NUCLEAR WEAPONS DESIGN.
- TALK SHOW HOST, "THE OPEN LINE TO THE WEST COAST" (SAT & SUN 10PM TO 1AM) KGO RADIO AM-810, AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO (SINCE 1972).
1965-1980:
- CO-FOUNDER OF BERKELEY SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1966) WITH DR. DONALD GLASER, NOBEL PRIZE, PHYSICS, 1960.
- PRESIDENT, BERKELEY SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES (1966-70).
- CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES (LATER, REORGANIZED AS COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTER SERVICES AND BAKTE BENNETT LABORATORIES, BERKELEY), 1970-1980.
- MEMBER, U.S. AIR FORCE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, 1967-70
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR DEFENSE SYSTEMS (DR. EDWAR TELLER)
1961-67:
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, U.C. BERKELEY, AND STAFF MEMBER, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, PHYSICS DIVISION.
- CONSULTANT: LOCKHEED MISSILES AND SPACE COMPANY
IBM CORPORATION GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
BELLCOM (NASA APOLLO PROJECT).
EDUCATION:
1961: Ph.D, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, U.C. BERKELEY.
1959: MASTER'S DEGREE, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, U.C. BERKELEY.
1958: B.S., ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
CHICO.
REFERENCES:
- DR. JOHN NUCKOLLS, FORMER DIRECTOR, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA
- MR. MICHAEL LUCKOFF, PRESIDENT, KGO RADIO, SAN FRANCISCO
- DR. EDWARD TELLER, HOOVER INSTITUTE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
so where's the knowHow in that area?
If you have to ask you will never know.
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "aliveleak" (R)
I realy dont see it.
In my eyes someone would have to have extensive experience with climate models and first hand access to all necessary data. I dont see anything deep about Meteorology in his CV. Nothing comparable to the pros the IPCC has to offer or a vitae comparable to that of a Bert Bolin for example.
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Simba1" (R)
Global Warming =Junk science
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Gp83" (B)
LMAO at the libs
tell us more about your imaginary friend.
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "triplette" (R)
what an ass
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "Sally7654" (B)
jesus is a myth
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "dmtracey15" (R)
liberals are a total joke
Posted Apr-21-2008 by "rpdopey" (R)
The total hypocrisy of the global warming moonbats is so glaringly obvious! The idea of global warming has nothing to do with saving the planet, as this vid points out, but has everything to do with environmental socialism which is basically a marxist ploy to transfer wealth from developed countries to underdeveloped countries in order to someday destroy capitalism and replace it with a socialist/communist regime. If this happens you can say goodby to life and freedom as you know it! Socialists will always try to suppress anyone who does not agree with them.
Posted Apr-22-2008 by "sanhan" Premium