Daniel Ellsberg was a perennial presence at the annual Hiroshima Day action outside of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory – a major U.S. nuclear weapons design lab, speaking for the end of nuclear weapons and then getting arrested at the lab’s gate.

Ellsberg’s advocacy went far beyond his Hiroshima Day appearances, and Scott will elaborate – while also giving us an update on the nuclear weapons situation in our country and the world. This will include the latest news on the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s DC Days, a national lobbying effort that took place May 19-22. Scott will also address the Lawrence Livermore Lab itself, most notably its environmental impacts on the Bay Area. And he will offer next steps on how activists can oppose nuclear weapons.

Scott Yundt’s career with Tri-Valley CAREs goes back to 2003, when he signed on as a legal intern. He became the Staff Attorney in 2009, managing the group’s community “right to know” program that included litigation on Freedom of Information Act activities. His work includes efforts to stop new nuclear weapons proposed at the lab as well as new bomb plants proposed by the federal agencies that build them. Scott is in charge of a program to monitor and expose both the nuclear weapons activities and environmental cleanup at the lab, and he facilitates a support group – including getting benefit claims – for Department of Energy nuclear weapons workers made ill by on-the-job exposures.