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It was five past midnight in Bhopal
by Dominique Lapierre
First Published
2001
Subjects
Pesticides industry
Accidents
Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
Antiquarian
Nonfiction
Sociology
Union Carbide Corporation
Union Carbide Ltd. (India)
Environmental aspects of Methyl isocyanate
Industrial toxicology
Methyl isocyanate
Non-fiction
Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India. 1984
Bhopāl, Catastrophe de (1984)
Produits chimiques
Catastrophes industrielles
Responsabilité pénale (droit international)
Droit international pénal
Droits de l'homme
General
History - General History
Catastrophe de Bhopāl, Bhopāl, Inde, 1984
Bhopal (india)
Description
It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people. When the noxious clouds cleared, the worst industrial disaster in history had taken place. Now, Dominique Lapierre brings the hundreds of characters, conflicts, and adventures together in an unforgettable tale of love and hope. Readers will meet the poetry-loving factory worker who unleashes the apocalypse, the young Indian bride who was to be married that terrible night, and the doctors who died that night saving others. It is a gripping, fascinating account that is already mesmerizing readers around the world.