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Your safety comes first - Nuclear safeguards

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"Duck Hunters Trigger False Alarm At Texas Nuke Weapons Assembly Plant
February 16th, 2010

Two armed and camouflaged men spotted near a nuclear weapons assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas prompted the facility to lock down after they were reported as security threat..."


"Fire In Nuclear Missle Site Went Unnoticed For Five Days

A fire caused $1 million worth of damage at an unmanned underground nuclear launch site last spring, but the Air Force didn’t find out about it until five days later, an Air Force official said Thursday. The May 23 fire burned itself out after an hour or two, and multiple safety systems prevented any threat of an accidental launch of the Minuteman III missile, Maj. Laurie Arellano said. She said she was not allowed to say whether the missile was armed with a nuclear warhead at the time of the fire."

Spy Pigeons Arrested Near Nuclear Site
October 20th, 2008

Security forces in Natanz have arrested two suspected “spy pigeons” near Iran’s controversial uranium enrichment facility, the reformist Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Monday. One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, the report cited an unnamed informed source as saying, adding that some metal rings and invisible strings were attached to the bird. “Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings,” the source was quoted as saying of the second pigeon…

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