Oh dear

Where the hell are my keys?

The Energy Department is conducting a widespread review of
security at America's nuclear weapons laboratories after reports of
hundreds of missing keys, some of which could allow access to sensitive
areas. Sources tell CBS News that lock and key experts will begin
visiting all U.S. nuclear labs next month to assess the problem of
missing keys and apparent security lapses, reports CBS News
Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. The review follows reports last summer
that a government facility known by its World War II code name "Y-12"
had reported "a number" of keys missing. In fact, 200 keys were
missing. Located in Tennessee, Y-12 was part of the Manhattan Project
where uranium was processed for the first atomic bomb and is today
considered the Fort Knox of highly enriched uranium -- the kind
terrorists could use for a devastating bomb. Some of the missing keys,
according to one source, "provide possible access to sensitive areas"
at the Y-12 facility. At Sandia National Labs in New Mexico, a set of
master keys went missing for more than a week, including keys that
could get someone as far as the glass doors leading to the nuclear
reactors. At the time, nobody bothered to change the locks or report
the security breach as required.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 2, 2004 at 04:26 PM | Permalink