Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The Bhopal disaster of 1984 affected millions of people over several years. Court cases and victims' campaigns continue to this day. It began with a chemical leak, one night, at a plant in Bhopal, India. The damage to health and to the environment would last far longer than the leak itself.
Bhopal stands alongside other accidents of the same era: the partial meltdown of the reactor at Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania, and the explosion at Chernobyl, in Ukraine. Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, these accidents made the world aware of the legacy of industrialization, mass production and the Cold War.
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- 2Bhopal, a large city in central India
- 3The Union Carbide plant and MIC gas
- 4Thirty tons of gas over a sleeping city
- 5Compensation, trials and the memory of the disaster
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