Re: Comments on the West Wing episode

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

> Why should West Wing have talked about 

> such an accident at all, when it was clearly extraneous to any story

> line?



Ruth ... I think you're going a little overboard here. There are all 

kinds of movies involving all kinds of accident, both real and some 

not so real. That is what is called entertainment. The fact that "we" 

are pro-nuclear doesn't change the fact that there are going to be 

movies that are about nuclear attack, nuclear materials, nuclear 

waste, etc. There are movies about earthquakes, tidal waves, towering 

infernos, etc. That is what is entertaining to many. Your suggestion 

that every movie, TV or otherwise, always is going to be 100% 

accurate, is just not reality. The bottom line with respect to the 

West Wing was that they covered an incident, they spoke in pretty 

good technical terms, it wasn't done in an alarmist manner, and, they 

even stated at the end that there was no problem.



Now, the real issue I see in some of this debate, is whether you are 

implying categorically that under no circumstance, can there ever be 

an accident involving transportation of nuclear materials, of any 

kind, where there will be any adverse consequences. If that is what 

you are saying, I simply have to disagree with you. Accidents will 

happen, and, whether we want to believe it or not, sometimes, bad 

things do happen.



Yes, sometimes bad things do happen. And when we categorically 

dismiss every dialogue as being impossible, we lose our credibility. 

I suppose all the disaster preparedness teams are simply formed, 

drill, just for show?

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