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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Mar 08 15 08:47

Title: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Post by: TehBorken on Mar 08 15 08:47
Another installment of WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

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 many Karachi residents say the real nuclear nightmare is unfolding here in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city.

Of all the possible bad places to locate a nuclear reactor, they argue, who could possibly make a case for this one: an earthquake-prone seafront vulnerable to tsunamis (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/outcry-and-fear-as-pakistan-builds-new-nuclear-reactors-in-dangerous-karachi/2015/03/05/425e8e70-bc59-11e4-9dfb-03366e719af8_story.html) and not far from where al-Qaeda militants nearly hijacked a Pakistan navy vessel last fall.