Nuclear Insecurity - CBS

[dArKeR]

Even after the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, security at two American nuclear weapons facilities has been penetrated at least three times during mock terrorist drills that the facilities knew about in advance.

This disturbing fact is disclosed in Correspondent Ed Bradley’s report on the state of security at American facilities housing nuclear weapons, and the deadly materials used to make them. His report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

The 60 Minutes investigation reveals that in security tests conducted after Sept. 11, mock terrorists penetrated several layers of security on at least three occasions at the Y-12 nuclear complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. - America's primary source of weapons-grade plutonium - and at Los Alamos National Laboratory near Albuquerque, N.M.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/12/60minutes/main599957.shtml

AWOL doing one heck of a incompetent job.

or

Terrorists only strike when/where Bush/Cheney order them to strike.

[MikeG]

1. Security Coordinator, Homer Simpson, had no comment. Doh!!!

[LARED]

2. 60 minutes

did a expose on the chemical industry as well. I work in the industry and am intimately familiar with aspects of security and process safety for highly hazardous chemicals or HHC's.

The report was hardly fair and balanced, and was full of half truths and fear mongering rather than objective reporting you should find in investigative reporting.

To be fair they did point out some legitimate security and process safety problems facing the chemical industry, but it was cast in a light that painted these issues as the industry's negligence rather than new issues facing these businesses that they are trying to cope with.

60 minutes lost a lot of credibility in my book.