Gadhafi sends East Tennessee a belated Christmas present:
Tons of nuclear material and sensitive equipment were airlifted out of Libya Monday night and brought to a government facility in Oak Ridge, officials confirmed Tuesday – hours after the secret shipment had reached its destination.
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The big shipment, estimated at 55,000 pounds, is part of a rapid U.S. response to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s December promise to abandon his weapons-development program.
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McClellan said the cargo was sent to a “secure facility” in Tennessee. That facility is Y-12, a warhead-manufacturing facility that also houses the nation’s primary stockpile of weapons-grade uranium.
Nothing spruces up the neighborhood quite like 55,000 pounds of nuclear materials.