What if India had a nuclear disaster?

Tamil terrorists from Sri Lanka are now in India. They are highly resourceful and fully cognizant of the spectacular impact they can create. A terrorist attack on an Indian nuclear plant will dwarf the Chernobyl disaster

A Nuclear Disaster Will Trigger Disintegration of India Lanjaweb, February 10th, 2013 Dilrook Kannangara According to Gorbachev, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster has a lot to do in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He revealed this in a book he wrote. Previously his Glasnost program was blamed in most part for the fall. But the veteran explains how people demanded more transparency from the government following the disaster which forced the government to come up with the Glasnost program. Obviously economic woes and inevitable change took over the momentum but the trigger could well be the Chernobyl (in the Republic of Ukraine) disaster in April 1986. It highlighted the fallibility of the Union that won most of its wars and its leaders projected to be in total charge.

Triggers Within and Without….. Though India boasts to be the world’s largest democracy, its people hardly enjoy democratic rights. Freedom of expression has been severely curtailed through state controlled or influenced media entities. Dissent on national issues is not tolerated. Old friends including Russia have been marginalised with France and USA emerging as India’s new bedfellows.

A Nuclear Disaster

Before considering this likelihood it is useful to analyse the distribution of nuclear power plants and weapons of India. India is a nuclear power since its first explosion code named ‘smiling Buddha’ in 1974. Estimates put its number of war heads at a modest 50 – 100. Recently Indians have expanded their reach of nuclear weapons delivery rockets to Beijing. Though it is not clearly known where it deploys its nuclear weapons, reason has it that those must be away from population centres and closer to action. India is very highly populated with the highest population density of all nuclear powers. This makes its population highly vulnerable to any accidental, intentional or retaliatory damage to its nuclear warheads. Limited news reports indicate the displeasure of people in certain states to host nuclear warheads. North western, extreme northern, north eastern and southern states hold most of India’s nuclear warheads.

These have been placed away from the ‘Hindi Belt’ for safety, political, economic and purely racist reasons. India’s dominant Hindi Belt people have been shielded from dangers deriving from its nuclear weapons. Any nuclear disaster involving these weapons will highlight racist discrimination of India that endangers people living outside the Hindi Belt. This coupled with growing displeasure of ethnic and caste discrimination, Hindi centric decision making and Hindi cultural dominance will trigger India’s collapse.

However, there is a much bigger threat that looms from nuclear power plants that spread very fast to meet the growing electricity demand. Except few small plants, all the others are located outside the ‘Hindi Belt’. Very large plants are under construction and in planning stage in many parts of the country well away from the Hindi Belt. Most of them actually follow the Chernobyl design. India’s safety standards, investment in safety procedures and disaster response are many layers behind that of even the Soviet Union. Any disaster will be a major catastrophe affecting hundreds of millions of people. A large number of these plants are in coastal areas facing the possibility of tsunamis, tidal waves and cyclones.

Apart from accidents there is the strong possibility of terrorist and military attacks. India has earned the wrath of many groups and hence is house to over a dozen terrorist groups of various denominations. Neighbouring Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal have their terrorist groups. Tamil terrorists from Sri Lanka are now in India. They are highly resourceful and fully cognizant of the spectacular impact they can create. A terrorist attack on an Indian nuclear plant will dwarf the Chernobyl disaster….. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2013/02/10/a-nuclear-disaster-will-trigger-disintegration-of-india/