Report: US nuclear labs vulnerable to attack

Security at America’s nuclear weapons labs is so lax that the facilities have repeatedly failed drills in which mock terrorists captured radioactive material and escaped, according to an article in Vanity Fair magazine.

Report: US nuclear labs vulnerable to attack

Security at America’s nuclear weapons labs is so lax that the facilities have repeatedly failed drills in which mock terrorists captured radioactive material and escaped, according to an article in Vanity Fair magazine.

“Some of the facilities would fail year after year,” said Rich Levernier, who spent six years running war games for the U.S. government until he lost his security clearance in 2001.

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