From Readers: The Bhopal Disaster
As it happens, I was in Bhopal a few
days after the event.My visit had been
arranged long before, but my host had
just been appointed chairman of the committee
hastily convened by the government
to decide what to do about the
second tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC)
that had not leaked. Nobody at the time
knew what had happened. Curiously,
journalists were blaming Union Carbide
the day after the accident, without any
facts at all. Here are a few key points:....
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