Could North Korea's nuclear weapon arsenal end up in Tennessee?

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – A top Trump administration says North Korea’s nuclear weapons should be shipped to East Tennessee if that rogue regime makes good on its promise to dismantle its nuclear-testing program.

In a television interview Sunday, National Security Adviser John Bolton said North Korea’s nuclear weapons should be totally dismantled and sent to Oak Ridge, where the U.S. Department of Energy operates a national research laboratory and a nuclear weapons complex.

Denuclearization of North Korea “means getting rid of all the nuclear weapons, dismantling them, taking them to Oak Ridge,” Bolton said on ABC’s This Week. “It means getting rid of the uranium enrichment and plutonium processing capabilities. It means addressing the ballistic missile issue. A lot of things like that.”

Bolton did not say whether the weapons should be stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory or the nearby Y-12 National Security Complex, whose primary mission is nuclear weapons production.

Read more: https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/14/north-koreas-dismantled-nukes-could-end-up-tennessee-trump-official-says/608328002/

[lapfog_1]

1. oak ridge is not a secure site.

There are others that the DOE operates that are, but not Oak Ridge.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

2. Figured Pantex would get the job if it comes to that...

Being that they are the primary assembly/disassembly facility now. I thought Y-12 was more R&D oriented and did storage for Naval reactor fuel and unassembled materials, not actual warheads or pits themselves.