Boston—The worldwide campaign against nuclear power in all manifestations, peaceful or military, proceeds apace. The New York Times provides a useful scoreboard: a month or so ago its Op-Ed page featured an essay by one Donald Morrison describing the impact on New York City of a one-megaton nuke smacking Times Square. Last week the same space carried another terror scenario.
This was not a nuclear weapon, but a truckload of nuclear waste crashing at 57th Street and Broadway. The authors, like Morrison, work for some basically anonymous organization; their article is the intellectual version of the horror movies that seem to be titillating teenagers. Those who know New York will spot a fundamental flaw: the wretched truck is going from Queens to the George Washington Bridge via 57th Street.
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