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| name = Megan Rice
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| birth_name = Megan Gillespie Rice
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| birth_place = [[Morningside Heights, New York]],
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| death_place = [[Rosemont, Pennsylvania]],
| education = [[Fordham University]]<br>[[Villanova University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Boston College]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])
| occupation = Nun, activist
| known_for = Illegally entering in 2012 at Y-12 National Nuclear Weapons Complex Y-12 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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[[File:Louis Megan Jim.jpg|thumb|Fr. [[Louis Vitale]], Sister Megan Rice and Jim Haber protest US policy on torture at [[Ft. Huachuca]], Arizona where interrogation methods are taught to US military forces|alt=Vitale, Rice and Haber at Ft. Huachuca Arizona protest ]]
'''Megan Gillespie Rice''' [[Society of the Holy Child Jesus|S.H.C.J.]] ([[Society of the Holy Child Jesus]]) (January 31, 1930 – October 10, 2021)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-10-17|title=Sister Megan Rice, Fierce Critic of U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, Dies at 91|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/obituaries/megan-rice-dead.html|access-date=2021-10-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> was an American nuclear disarmament activist, [[Catholic]] nun, and former [[missionary]].<ref name="broad">William J. Broad, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/science/behind-nuclear-breach-a-nuns-bold-fervor.html "Behind Nuclear Breach, a Nun's Bold Fervor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315204541/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/science/behind-nuclear-breach-a-nuns-bold-fervor.html |date=March 15, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 11, 2012.</ref> She was notable for illegally entering the [[Y-12 National Security Complex|Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee]], at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the [[Plowshares Movement|Transform Now Plowshares]] group.<ref name="Wittner, Lawrence S">{{Cite book|title=Confronting the bomb : a short history of the world nuclear disarmament movement|last=Wittner, Lawrence S.|isbn=9780804771245|location=Stanford, Calif.|oclc=469186910|date = May 12, 2009}}</ref> The action was a nuclear disarmament protest referred to as "the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex."<ref name="broad" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/megan-rice-nuclear-breach-arrest_n_1878091|title=Megan Rice: How Did An 82-Year-Old Nun Get Past A Nuclear Facility's Security?|last=|first=|date=12 September 2012|website=www.huffpost.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016011038/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/megan-rice-nuclear-breach-arrest_n_1878091|archive-date=October 16, 2019|access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref>[[File:Megan Ann Candace.jpg|thumb|Megan Rice, [[Ann Wright]] (Col ret.) Candace Ross 2008 Las Vegas book release for Wright's book; Dissent Voices of Conscience|alt=]]
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