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Megan Rice: How Did An 82-Year-Old Nun Get Past A Nuclear Facility's Security?

If worries of lax security around nuclear weaponry storage facilities were keeping you up at night, you may want to skip reading this one: details are out on how 82-year-old Roman Catholic nun and activist Sister Megan Rice and two accomplices pulled off what The New York Times reported was "the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex."




Rice, along with fellow pacifists Michael R. Walli, 63, and Gregory I. Boertje-Obed, 57, were "armed only with flashlights, binoculars, bolt cutters, bread, flowers, a Bible, and several hammers," when they approached the Knoxville nuclear facility on July 28, the Center for Public Integrity reported.

Megan Rice: How Did An 82-Year-Old Nun Get Past A Nuclear Facility's Security?


Nun, 82, Allegedly Splashed Human Blood on Nuke Plant



Two men and an 82-year-old nun who allegedly broke into the U.S. government's only storage facility for weapons-grade enriched uranium and splashed it with human blood may face additional charges, the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Tennessee told ABC News Thursday.

Nun, 82, Allegedly Splashed Human Blood on Nuke Plant - ABC News