What you write should make a clear argument about what members of the public understood about the

Windscale disaster from the information made public at the time, versus what we know about the disaster today (drawing on what you learned from the film). So your essay will probably do some contrasting and comparing between what your articles are saying and what you saw on Monday. In the past history has shown us that through proper procedure; maintaining safety is all that can be done when dealing with any type of organization. In the event of the near explosion of Windscale, everybodys attention was caught when the truth was revealed on how the plant handled the production of the bomb from the media. The general public was only aware of what was shown to them; a nuclear partnership with America to strengthen Britain and of its devastating results from WWI (BBC). It can only be assumed that the populace that was familiar with technology like physicists or engineers was fully aware of what was needed to complete the creation of the nuke. It was a new expertise of its time, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, and etc; to convince the mass that this was a direction to take in the new world of war, needed persuasion and some deceit. In the five articles about this particular event, the media really censored from what was really portrayed in the documentary. Sir Christopher Hinton said in a conference pertaining to the nuclear plant, A well managed nuclear power programme can be operated as not to induce any problem of contamination by radioactive waste (Daring). The only news that really came from bomb were test launchs (explosion), conferences such as the discussion of the electric grid (electricity), and the after math of Windscale almost exploding (overheats). In todays world, its no surprise looking back how the government handled this incident; the creation of the atomic bomb was a huge leap in warfare. America represented at the time, the leading nation in technology for war; Britain being allies needed to prove their worth by showing their equally as strong to become partners. The opening of the new nuclear plant for the new power grid for Europe was just a distraction from the bad publicity of the bomb (BBC). The government used propaganda to influence people to continue the construction of the bomb; for instance the prime minster stating this would bring Britain back to its original place of being the superior country (BBC). Even today, nations all over the world are at race for the upper hand in technology to show their country is better than the rest. Windscale is the typical event in life where the people in charge rushed the production without little to no concern of the safety of proper procedure. This manmade disaster is the result of improper business ethics that are continuously seen today. To call it a disaster back then would have been foolish since nobody knew the full extent of what really happened. Through the media and the publicity that this event attracted over the years; it has really shown that Windscale pushed the limits and avoided an even worse experience than originally put through. Countless examples after Windscale have been shown throughout this class where businesses fail to abide by rules for the safety of its people. The only difference was that Windscale avoided the explosion while other events fell short of being as fortunate.