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...Ukraine spewed lethal radiation killing at least 30 people and affecting thousands more across the then-Soviet Union and Europe. On April 26, 1986 the blast at unit no. 4 caused a nuclear meltdown, with blazes burning at temperatures of up to 5000 Fahrenheit, or twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into the air. The radiation, carried by the wind, wound its lethal path across the Soviet Union's best farmland north toward Scandinavia. By week's end, an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward...
...these reasons, there is little chance that the U.S. can meet Congress's goal of destroying the entire weapons cache by 2004. Although the Army continues to explore alternatives to incineration--among them chemical neutralization; biological degradation; and the use of electricity, freezing or molten metal to convert the chemicals into inert waste--those technologies could take years, even decades, to develop on a large scale. And given the looming possibility of accidents that might befall the stockpiles, time is the one thing the Army doesn't have...
...dozen different ways. An atmospheric mist of sulfur dioxide, for example, could have stoked lethal storms of acid rain. Carbon dioxide, injected into the atmosphere by erupting volcanoes, could have trapped solar heat, disrupting climate through global warming. Even the physical force exerted by the rising plume of molten magma could have contributed to the extinction by uplifting a substantial section of the earth's crust. Since temperatures fall with elevation, says Renne, snow and ice would have quickly accumulated, wrecking ecosystems at higher elevations and contributing to the drop in sea level...
...convinced that it supported the then new theory of plate tectonics. According to this theory, the surface of the earth is not a single, rocky shell but a series of hard "plates," perhaps 80 km thick and up to thousands of kilometers across, floating on a bed of partly molten rock. The mid-ocean ridges, geologists argued, were likely locations for planetary crust to be created: the new plate material would be pushed upward by forces from below before it settled back down to form the sea floor...
Long after factories have disappeared from the lives of many workers and after humane labor laws have been passed, we are still die-cast in a factory mentality--as much as if most U.S. employees still spent eight hours a day working with molten steel...