The ongoing Dominion saga took yet another dramatic turn Sunday as a National Zero investigation of their corporate website revealed the company owns and operates four nuclear power generating facilities on the East Coast of the United States. The facilities are the Surry and North Anna Nuclear Power Stations in Virginia, the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina, and the Millstone Power Station in Connecticut, each of them capable of unfathomable destruction.

Dominion did not answer a request for comment on their nuclear capabilities, however tweets from November contain emphatic denials that Dominion had any involvement in the 2020 election:

Hi Lea, we don't make voting/polling equipment–the reference is to a completely different company with a similar name.

— Dominion Energy (@DominionEnergy) November 14, 2020

There is no connection. We do not make voting equipment. You are referring to a completely different company.

— Dominion Energy (@DominionEnergy) November 30, 2020

Why Dominion would attempt these denials is unclear given what has been established publicly well beyond any shadow of a doubt: That Dominion voting equipment was used in hundreds of jurisdictions across the United States in the 2020 election. Could it just have been the pressure of the moment – in which millions of Republican voters were accusing them of stealing an election – that it just wasn’t the right time to say “Hey, we also have hundreds of tons of glowing uranium that could explode and irradiate thousands of square miles of the United States”? Maybe that’s fair enough given the tensions of the moment, but we have to ask: When is the right moment?