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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	10/5/2001 1:02:47 PM
From: Karin	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Nuclear security found lax as 'mock terrorists' outmatch facilities By Stephen J. Hedges and Jeff Zeleny Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON — The nation's 10 nuclear-weapons research-and-production facilities are vulnerable to terrorist attack and have failed about half of recent security drills, according to a study compiled by a non-government watchdog group. U.S. Army and Navy commando teams penetrated the plants and obtained nuclear material during exercises designed to test security, according to the Project on Government Oversight report, which will be released today. In a drill in October 2000 at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, "the mock terrorists gained control of sensitive nuclear material which, if detonated, would have endangered significant parts of New Mexico, Colorado and downwind areas," the report says. In an earlier test at the same lab, an Army Special Forces team used a household garden cart to haul away enough weapons-grade uranium to build several nuclear weapons. seattletimes.nwsource.com

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