KNOXVILLE, TENN. - A U.S.
magistrate judge on Friday
ordered the release pending trial
of an 82-year-old nun and
another anti-nuclear activist
charged with breaching security
fences at one of the most
sensitive U.S. nuclear facilities, in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where
weapons-grade uranium is
kept.
The security failure was an
embarrassment for the National
Nuclear Security
Administration, or NNSA, the
Energy Department branch
that operates U.S. nuclear
weapons plants, and for the
international security firm G4S,
which owns WSI Oak Ridge, the
contractor responsible for
protecting the facility.
G4S was also at the center of a
dispute over security at the
London Olympic Games.
Officials said the facility was
shut down on Wednesday at
least until next week after
peace activists Megan Rice, 82, Michael Walli, 63,
and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, cut through
perimeter fences to reach the outer wall of a
building where highly enriched uranium, a key
nuclear bomb component, is stored.
The activists painted slogans and threw what
they said was human blood on the wall of the
facility, one of numerous buildings in the facility
known by the code name Y-12 that it was given
during World War Two, officials said.
At a hearing in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday,
assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Kirby argued that
all three should remain in custody. “This is a
crime of violence,” Kirby said.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge C.
Clifford Shirley ruled the threat
of violence was low and decided
to release Rice, who according
to her attorney has a thyroid
and heart condition and has not
been receiving her medication.
The judge also released Walli.
Both were given travel and
other restrictions, and will stay
at a private residence in
Knoxville while court
proceedings continue,
according to defense attorneys.
Boertje-Obed waived his right to a defense
attorney and will remain in detention.
All three defendants appeared in grey, striped
prison clothes with orange plastic shoes,
handcuffs, and leg manacles. Rice appeared frail
and was suffering from hypothermia, according to
her attorney, Francis Lloyd, Jr., who draped his
coat over her. Court was recessed to allow time to
find a space heater and a blanket for Rice.
While moving between the perimeter fences, the
activists triggered sensors that alerted security
personnel. But officials conceded the intruders
were still able to reach the building’s walls before
security personnel got to them.
Officials said that the storage building itself,
which was built after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida
attacks on New York and Washington, was
designed with modern security features and that
its contents were not compromised.s
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Who has the right to develop nuclear programme?
Why is iran's case different from the us.

I m confused with this world politics.

AK 48: Who has the right to develop nuclear programme?
Why is iran's case different from the us.

I m confused with this world politics.

did u just ask that question?

with AK47, C4s and other incendiaries they are giving the world a hell of a headache can u begin to imagine what will happen if they have access to nuclear weapons?