California / IN BRIEF : LIVERMORE : 97 Arrested in Protest Over Nuclear Testing

Security officers arrested at least 97 people at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during a protest of the Department of Energy’s proposal to resume U.S. nuclear testing, a laboratory spokeswoman said. About 200 people marched to the gates of the Livermore laboratory, 40 miles east of San Francisco, according to protest organizers. Another 15 demonstrators chained themselves to the Sandia National Laboratory across the street, said Jane Gire, a spokeswoman for Greenpeace. The activists are demanding an extension of the current U.S. nuclear testing moratorium, which began last September and is scheduled to run for one year.