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Article: A killing wind: inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal catastrophe.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 1987
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A Killing Wind: Inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal Castrophe.
It is now three years since a deadly cloud of methyl isocynate gas drifted from a Union Carbide pesticide plant over Bhopal, India, sending tens of thousands of gasping residents fleeing in horror. It remains the world's worst technological disaster, far more lethal and in many ways more ominous than the more highly publicized accidents last year--the Challenger space shuttle explosion and the Chernobyl nuclear plant breakdown. Yet unlike Challenger and Chernobyl, the events in Bhopal have never received anything approaching the exhaustive investigation, much less media scrutiny, they deserve. Today, ...