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Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Events Leading Up to the Bhopal Disaster

This chapter provides a detailed account of the events leading up to the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. It describes the Ishtema prayer gathering, the celebrations in town, and the actions of the workers at the factory. It then explains how the flushing of pipes connected to the MIC storage tanks went wrong, resulting in the release of a deadly gas cloud.

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