Three years gaol for anti nuclear nun
Elderly nun sentenced over US nuclear site break-in BBC News 18 Feb, An elderly Catholic nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for damage caused while breaking into a US nuclear defence site.
Sister Megan Rice, 84, and two other protesters cut fences and entered the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, facility, which processes and stores uranium.
The other two, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, were sentenced to more than five years in prison……
The facility was constructed as part of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret US programme to develop the very first nuclear bomb. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26250164
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