Nuclear lab brings out the big guns

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/02/lab.defense.ap/index.html Nuclear lab brings

out the big guns

 

 

Defense system now includes 6-barrel Gatling machine guns Friday,

February 3, 2006; Posted: 10:08 a.m. EST (15:08 GMT)

 

 

 

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

 

 

LIVERMORE, California (AP) -- Officials at the Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory have added a new weapon to their armory: a high-powered machine gun

that can fire more than 50 rounds per second.

 

The weapon, unveiled Thursday, is a six-barrel Gatling gun called the Dillon

Aero M134D. An undisclosed number of the guns will be mounted on vehicles and

elsewhere at the lab.

 

" What we want to do is equip our protective force with the capability that

will leave no doubt about the outcome, " said Linton Brooks, head of the National

Nuclear Security Administration.

 

Lab critics questioned the wisdom of putting such powerful guns at the lab,

which is across the street from suburban homes. They say the real problem is

that the lab site, which is relatively small at 1 square mile, is not a good

place for nuclear materials.

 

" If you don't have the firepower, that's one kind of security weakness, but if

you do have the firepower, you potentially endanger nearby workers and community

members because it's such a compact site, " said Marylia Kelley, executive

director of Tri-Valley CARES, a Livermore-based activist group.

 

Lab spokeswoman Susan Houghton said the guns add " one more layer of

protection. "

 

The 8,000-employee lab is 50 miles east of San Francisco.

 

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