Well, this isn't very reassuring. Both the cited sources are self-described "whistleblowers" and may just have their own personal agendas, but it's a matter of serious concern.
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.Posted by Alan at October 6, 2003 05:21 PM"Some of the facilities would fail year after year," said Rich Levernier, who spent six years running war games for the US government until he lost his security clearance in 2001.
"In more than 50 per cent of our tests at the Los Alamos facility, we got in, captured the plutonium, got out again, and in some cases didn't fire a shot, because we didn't encounter any guards."
These failures occurred despite the security forces at the Los Alamos National Laboratories and other nuclear facilities knowing the dates of the drills months in advance, according to the story in next month's Vanity Fair.
via News Interactive (Australia)