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Larry Everest
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Behind the Poison Cloud:
Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre

Larry Everest, author
Banner Press (January 1986)

Based on an on-the-scene investigation in Bhopal, India shortly after the gas disaster. On the night of December 2-3, 1984, 40 tons of Methyl Isocyanate and other deadly gases spewed from Union Carbide Corporation's factory in Bhopal, India. The safety sirens were turned off. In all an estimated 20,000 people were killed.

From the back cover

"The horrendous chemical disaster at Bhopal is an event of historic moment. Into this one brutal episode there converged a series of deep-seated, unsolved world-scale problems.... it is an event so deeply rooted in frustration as to seemingly justify the quiet that has so quickly descended on it. Now, in Behind the Poison Cloud, we have a lucid, moving, powerful response to the shameful silence that has enveloped this historic event.”
- Barry Commoner, Author, The Closing Circle

"A gripping and well-researched blow-by-blow account of the Bhopal accident and white-collar industry crime. Highly recommended.”
- Samuel Epstein, M.D., Author, The Politics of Cancer

"ft is just what we needed. This study is outstanding for its examination of the issues at all levels - from engineering design to international investment patterns and the Green Revolution. "
- Richard Lovins, Co-author, The Dialectical Biologist

"This is a very illuminating interpretation of the Bhopal tragedy based on the personal experience of the author. Those concerned about the involvement and the role of multinational corporations in economic development will find this analysis highly stimulating and provocative. "
- Dr. Paul Shrivastava, Director, Industrial Crisis Institute, New York

"Larry Everest has written an angry, well-informed book about a tragedy we should all be angry and well informed about. It is the best researched report on Bhopal / have read, and is based on very impressive reporting from the scene of the disaster itself.”
- David Weir, Co-author, Circle of Poison