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Kids and Nukes and Schools

May 17, 2008

In Sichuan China: 

Anger has focused on the state of school buildings, many of which crumpled in Monday’s 7.9 magnitude quake, burying thousands of children and prompting the Housing Ministry to order an investigation.

Just to add fuel to the fire:

The country is on precautionary alert against possible radiation leaks, according to government website seen on Friday.

The disaster area is home to China’s chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive atomic sites, but no nuclear power stations.

The Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, also known as the Southwest Institute, in Mianyang is the primary design laboratory for Chinese nuclear weapons, according to www.globalsecurity.org.

A Western expert with knowledge of the Mianyang lab had said it was unlikely it was at serious risk.

Yeah don’t worry too much - those nuclear weapon design sites are probably really well built.  I mean that stuff is really precious.  Because nuclear weapons that would kill tens of thousands of children if used are so much more important than the lives of tens of thousands of children … now dead because it was more important to protect those nuclear weapons … than schools

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