Fears of a missile attack on BARC in Mumbai

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HindustanTimes.com
Rajnish Sharma & Shailesh Gaikwad

New Delhi/Mumbai, August 12, 2006

It's a terror alert that's sent the defence of the realm on to a war footing: the intelligence agencies believe missiles have been smuggled into Mumbai to attack the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

After the Thursday warning to the Mumbai police, the Army, Navy and Coast Guard were pressed into action to virtually seal BARC from both land and sea. A combing operation of the BARC campus and scrapyards in Trombay, northeast Mumbai, for hidden explosives took place on Saturday.

Only research is conducted at BARC, where the country's top nuclear brains are at work. It has four reactors — Apsara, Cyrus, Zarlina and Dhruv. “Though three are ageing, they are safe and there is no internal or external threat to them,” said a Maharashtra home department official. “But we won’t take any chances.”

Home ministry officials said the "specific threat" to BARC differed from the heightened security arrangements made for the nuclear plants at Kalpakkam and Kaiga, as well as other vital installations in the wake of the Independence Day terror alert.

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1. Terrorist attack against a nuclear facility??? Can't Happen.

Only at twit would believe otherwise...

:sarcasm:

[Truthiness Inspector]

2. Oh boy

I read the article you linked and it said 3 people may have snuck into the secured facility. If that's the case, I hope their search has rooted them out.