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It was originally built in the '40s in the midst of the second world war. that's where they made the material for the nuclear bomb that the u.s. dropped on hiroshima in 1945. today, y-12 is still there and they call it the ft. knox of uranium. it's always been seen as a secure storage facility for our nation's enriched uranium nuclear material. but after 9/11, they upgraded y-12 further. they added a whole bunch of new high security features. still, though, in 2012 somebody broke into y-12. it was july 28th, 2012, around 4:00 in the morning. three people hiked through the woods on the outskirt...

Material storage facility inside there. and once they were inside, they were there for an hour before anybody came to arrest them. they did not resist. josh harkinson has been doing some great reporting about this at mother jones among other people, but josh wrote about the roots of what specifically happened at y-12, about those roots going back to 1967. apparently the first known use of human blood in an american anti-war protest was in 1967. an anti-vietnam war protest when four men poured some of their own blood on draft files that were at the baltimore customs house. the "washington post"...