Red Team Penetrates Nuke Lab's Security, Reaches "Superblock"

“Red Team” Penetrates Nuke Lab’s Security, Reaches “Superblock”

by Tom Burghardt / May 22nd, 2008

During a mock exercise at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), an antiterrorist “red team” breached security and penetrated Building 332, the so-called “Superblock” where some 2,000 pounds of plutonium and weapons-grade uranium are stored. Lab security personnel failed miserably, Time magazine reported.

Situated in Livermore, California, LLNL is about an hour’s drive from San Francisco; approximately seven million people live within a 50 mile radius of the weapons facility. But as the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) disclosed in March,


…the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has given Livermore Lab a waiver so that it does not have to meet the …
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