Williamsburg Regional Library

The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs

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The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs

Originally produced by Bayview Entertainment in 2019

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In July 2012 three intruders broke into the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, known as America's "Fort Knox of Uranium". Y-12 stores enough highly enriched uranium to make some 10,000 nuclear bombs. The break-in, described by The New York Times, as the most serious security breach in the history of the U.S. atomic complex, sent shock waves throughout the federal government and the world, when it turned out the intruders were an 82-year-old Catholic nun and two fellow peace activists. The trio succeeded in penetrating the heart of America's nuclear stockpile through the sheer power of their moral conviction and a pair of bolt cutters. Theirs was a Plowshares protest designed to raise public consciousness on the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons

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