Fort Knox, an Impregnable Monument to Security Theater - Bloomberg

Fort Knox, an Impregnable Monument to Security Theater - Bloomberg

Treasury Department press releases described the vault’s extraordinary security measures, including electric fences, a moat, steel-and-concrete walls, a bombproof roof, poison-gas booby traps, and an emergency flooding system. The Treasury hinted at other forms of protection too secret and awful to mention. “We thought Fort Knox would be a safe place,” Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau answered cryptically when a reporter asked why he chose Fort Knox. “You know what I mean -- safe.” 

Funny stuff indeed....