I remember that day. I was in my 2nd year of college, which I guess is what is called university in Europe. I was 20.
It was covered here a lot, and I think the american news agencies were just repeating the information that was being given as "official" announcements around the world. But I remember thinking that there was no way it wasn't going to be tremendously damaging to the environment and dangerous to the health of the entire population of the world. I couldn't believe they would even try to tell us that. After all, throughout the early 80s so much of our science and physics classes were about atomic energy, nuclear energy, the far-reaching effects of radiation, and radio-active fallout. There were even major motion picture movies made about nuclear disasters, because it was such a hot topic, like terrorism is now.
I still find it absurd that it was even attempted to be minimized, and that there are still some who try to say that disaster was avoided.
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Date: 2006-04-26 04:12 pm (UTC)It was covered here a lot, and I think the american news agencies were just repeating the information that was being given as "official" announcements around the world. But I remember thinking that there was no way it wasn't going to be tremendously damaging to the environment and dangerous to the health of the entire population of the world. I couldn't believe they would even try to tell us that. After all, throughout the early 80s so much of our science and physics classes were about atomic energy, nuclear energy, the far-reaching effects of radiation, and radio-active fallout. There were even major motion picture movies made about nuclear disasters, because it was such a hot topic, like terrorism is now.
I still find it absurd that it was even attempted to be minimized, and that there are still some who try to say that disaster was avoided.