--- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: Noah Shachtman <noahmax6000at_private> Subject: FC: How I Snuck Into Los Alamos To: declanat_private Declan: I snuck into Los Alamos, the world's top nuclear research center, over the weekend. I thought Politech readers might want to see my story on how I did it. I think the article raises serious questions about the safety of our country's nuclear secrets. So if group members could spread the word about this to friends and colleagues, I'd very much appreciate it. -- "There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple. To sneak into Los Alamos National Laboratory, the world's most important nuclear research facility, all you do is step over a few strands of rusted, calf-high barbed wire. "I should know. On Saturday morning, I slipped into and out of a top-secret area of the lab while guards sat, unaware, less than a hundred yards away. "Despite the nation's heightened terror alert status, despite looming congressional hearings into the lab's mismanagement and slack-jawed security, an untrained person -- armed with only the vaguest sense of the facility's layout and slowed by a torn Achilles tendon -- was able to repeatedly gain access to the birthplace of the atom bomb..." For details -- and pictures -- click on over to my Wired News story here: http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,57792,00.html Or go to www.wired.com. Additional items on this story can be found at Defense Tech (www.defensetech.org OR defensetech.blogspot.com), my website devoted to technology and national security issues. Best, nms ===== Noah Shachtman noahmaxat_private 917-690-0716 www.defensetech.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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