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Union Carbide's investigation in Bhopal focused on a partially buried tank holding more than 10,000 gal. of methyl isocyanate (MIC), a highly toxic chemical used in the manufacture of Sevin, Temik and other pesticides. The sealed tank was designed to keep the deadly MIC refrigerated and isolated from the environment. But on the night of Dec. 2, a series of runaway chemical reactions heated the interior of the tank to 400 degreesF, causing an escape valve to burst open and release a lethal cloud of vapor over the slums of Bhopal...
...week, which left 40 unsuspecting people injured, may seem quite removed for most Cantabrigians. And so might a similar industrial disaster in Bhopal, India which killed 2000 and injured 200,000 more last December. In both cases, Union Carbide officials had repeatedly assured local residents that a release of toxic chemicals into their communities was highly unlikely...
From neighborhood meetings with company officials in nearby Arlington and Belmont to the chambers of the Cambridge City Council, a chorus of politicians and citizens alike have echoed one resounding sentiment the risks associated with the testing of toxic nerve agents far outweigh any benefits to the third a densely population populated city in America...
...took Union Carbide two days before realizing that it was responsible for last week's accident in West Virginia. With ADL's recent record, how long would it take the company to inform the proper authorities in the event of a spill of toxic substances...
...need for reasonable regulations regarding commercial and academic research on nerve gas will remain long after the ADL question is settled. In fact, these highly toxic substances are currently unregulated by any local, state, or federal public safety statutes except by Department of Defense standards. In the absence of reliable regulations, it is no wonder that Cambridge residents are wary about ADL's nerve gas testing. ADL's should need public sentiment which indicates that nerve gas is not something Cambridge wants next door...