[ RadSafe ] News Item Online - Belgian Activists Breach NuclearWeapons Site

[blreider at aol.com]

Interesting point, I have yet to see this on the "regular" news, at least on TV.  I did see it on multiple websites including one small news website & blogs, but not on the NY Times or larger news sites.   I would have thought it would be reasonably interesting to the news media with all the recent breaches in security lately.

Has anyone seen this news on a bigger, better known site?

Thanks

Barbara Reider, CHP



-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Sent: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 9:07 pm
Subject: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] News Item Online - Belgian Activists Breach NuclearWeapons Site


Feb. 5 
 
  I'm not certain of how to construe this. Without imputing anything specific to anyone, no one is suggesting that the guard(s) should have shot any of these intruders. They should have been detected when they crossed the first fence, and either arrested for trespassing, or escorted off the base. Their getting as far as they did bespeaks gross incompetence on the part of the so-called guards. Their intrusion also doesn't say much for the general level of security at this base, nor does it say much for the specific security procedures. 
 
  Naturally, the intruders would not have been able to detonate (or steal, etc.) any of the weapons. Their purpose is to make NATO look foolish or incompetent, or both. They succeeded. 
 
Steven Dapra 
 
At 07:54 AM 2/5/2010, Franz Schönhofer wrote: 
>Come on and take a few seconds (or minutes) to consider this "event": If the 
>guards had shot in defence a few of those "activists" - what would the 
>outcome have been? An outraged worldwide cry that peaceful protestors were 
>killed by the reckless pronuclears. 
> 
>Personally I do not believe that nuclear weapons are necessary or wanted. 
>Moreover I do not believe that any of these "groups" would be able to fire 
>any nuclear weapon - so actual risk is zero - but try to explain this to 
>journalists! Those journalists depend on horror stories - not such rubbish- 
>no honorary...... 
> 
>Those events are not to be taken from a serious, scientific point of view - 
>politics and mass media transfer is what fits their agenda. 
> 
>Franz 
> 
>Franz Schoenhofer, PhD 
>MinRat i.R. 
>Habicherg. 31/7 
>A-1160 Wien/Vienna 
>AUSTRIA 
> 
> 
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
>Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag 
>von blreider at aol.com 
>Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Februar 2010 02:01 
>An: radsafe at radlab.nl 
>Betreff: [ RadSafe ] News Item Online - Belgian Activists Breach 
>NuclearWeapons Site 
> 
> 
>This story was on a few sites. Not directly an HP issue, but I thought it 
>would be of interest. The story says that on Feb 4th (today) Belgian peace 
>activists climbed over a fence at a NATO airforce site, walked across a 
>runway, and then breached a double security fence and walked to an area 
>where 10-20 American nuclear weapons possibly are stored. 
> 
>If this is true this is a big breach of security. 
> 
>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/02/kleinebrogel.php 
> 
>Barb 
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