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On a tranquil summer nighttime in July 2012, a trio of older tranquility activists infiltrated the Y-12 Country wide Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Fort Knox of Uranium", Y-12 was reputedly one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities on the globe, a bastion of warhead parts that harbored a huge selection of metric a great deal of highly enriched uranium - enough to force thousands of nuclear bombs. The activists - a residence painter, a Vietnam conflict veteran, and an 82-year-old Catholic nun - penetrated the complex's outside with alarming convenience; their best tools were two pairs of bolt cutters and three hammers. Once inside, the pacifists hung freshly spray-painted protest banners and streaked the complex's white walls with six baby containers' worth of human bloodstream. They waited to be imprisoned. With all the symbolic break-in, the Plowshares activists experienced hoped to attract attention to an expensive military-industrial sophisticated that stockpiled lethal nukes and drones. But they also brought on a political, legal, and moral firestorm when they defeated a multimillion-dollar security system. Imagine if that they had been terrorists with a lethal motive? How come the United States continue to own such large amounts of nuclear weaponry in the first place? And most importantly, are we safe? In Almighty, Washington Post reporter Dan Zak explores these questions by reexamining the 70-yr background of America's nuclear weapons programs and its own attendant madness. At the same time when we are rightly concerned about proliferation in such nations as North Korea and Iran, the United Expresses' massive arsenal is suffering from its own questions of security. This truly life-or-death concern is unraveled in Zak's eye-opening and terrifying bank account. From the important biophysicist who first informed the general public on atomic energy to the prophet who forecasted the introduction of the Oak Ridge facilities to the jury who convicted the Plowshares activists under the Sabotage Function, Zak's Almighty reshapes the accepted narratives surrounding America's atomic weapons. Powerful, illuminating, and ambitious, Almighty makes the circumstance that, way more than another global peril, our very best modern-day threat of nuclear disaster starts at home.
