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Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster
schwit1 writes World leaders have fretted for years that terrorists may try to steal one of Pakistan's nuclear bombs and detonate it in a foreign country. But some Karachi residents say the real nuclear nightmare is unfolding here in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city. Of all places to locate a nuclear reactor, they argue, who could possibly make a case for this one — on an earthquake-prone seafront vulnerable to tsunamis and not far from where al-Qaeda militants nearly hijacked a Pakistan navy vessel last fall.
Yeah but let's be honest this is really an, "Only the white man can be trusted with high tech!" article.
Never mind who actually ends up building and then using the deadliest weapons. It's DIFFERENT then because we're only using them on the sort of savages who want to build and use the deadliest weapons...
What actually happened. It was known it could have happened. Nobody gave a fuck. The National Academy of Sciences reported a couple of years ago and said that the problem was ignoring the unlikely scenarios even if it was known that they were possible.
A tsunami that high is not seen as a possible scenario, likely or unlikely.
And the "regional instability" thing is just the West not liking anyone else aspiring to approach it. You know what'll stop backward hicks like ISIS? Technical and social advance, not deliberately holding countries back because they're seen by the World Policemen as too primitive to handle whatever.
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...
leads to:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
132.5foot = 40.4meters, that's a bit more than 0.9m or 12m. Normal waves can reach 10m in many places.
Perhaps you should 'shut-up' and check your facts.
And for good measure:
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And
https://books.google.co.uk/boo...
""The trading towns of Pasni and Ormara, Pakistan, located 100 km away from the epicentre, were flooded by a ~15.0m high wall of water""
Still think it's a good place to put a nuclear reactor?
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but some of their loyalties are divided, and in secret
and with so much sectarian hatred, political instability, and poverty in that country, i fear that the most probable scenario for a purposeful nuclear attack in this world (so not accidental, probably plant sabotage) will be in pakistan
i don't think the west has anything to fear. i think india does somewhat. but i think pakistanis have the most to fear by far
there is a lot of bloodlust over there. and not the random yahoo kind, but the organized sectarian kind
i fear for you pakistan
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Bin Laden was a CIA asset while fighting to eject the Soviets from Afghanistan.
Bin Laden, as one of 50+ children of the owner of a major Saudi construction firm that profited all through the oil expansion there, was strongly favored in inheriting a disproportionate amount from his father and ended up with over $300 million as a result. Much of this was expended building clinics and schools in the Afghan hinterland. The students of these madrassas were called Taliban, Pashto for "the students".
During the fight to eject the Soviets, Bin Laden was an ally under the usual terms of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". However, once the common enemy is dispatched by two allies-of-convenience, a power vacuum is created in the formerly disputed territory and was filled by Bin Laden and his allies, in part because as major combatants they are best poised, trained and equipped to take advantage of the chaos left by the withdrawal of an occupation force.
So even if Bin Laden was an ally during the Eighties, he was no longer a friend in the Nineties because we had no common enemy. To try to suggest that he was our ally is comparable to saying that the Soviets as our allies in WW II continued to be our allies throughout the Cold War.
After a victory against a common foe, the enemy of your enemy is no longer your friend and quite often does become your enemy.
China is building this plant and China has never had a nuclear accident. It has to be safe.