Chernobyl could have been much, much worse had the Russians not "persuaded" hundreds of thousands of liquidators to help in containing the disaster. If the reactor would have melted through the bottom of the plant and hit the water table most of Europe would be a wasteland today.
Let us hope that something like this doesn't occur in Japan. These plants are right on the ocean.
"and a third of the waters turned to blood"- does this sound familiar?
Let us hope that something like this doesn't occur in Japan. These plants are right on the ocean.
"and a third of the waters turned to blood"- does this sound familiar?
)? We weren't the ones who sold our own countrymen into slavery. As far as Native Americans, as much as I hate to say it, we did nothing to them that they weren't already doing to themselves (with perhaps the exception to the unforgiveable Trail of Tears). We happened along with superior firepower and the rest is history. 
together on this, it would be them. They spend tons on it - because it is more needed given their situation. If this happened ANYWHERE else, I suspect that the response would be LESS swift and skilled, not more. That includes here in the States. That's not due to any pro-Japanese bent on my part. It's just the simple logic that such civil defense is a huge priority to them, and it's less so to us. This is their Katrina with a nuclear problem thrown on top for good measure. Their civil defense will do well, I believe, but there's only so much that they can do. Old Ma' Nature's bigger than all of us.
