Re: BBC's "The Kitchen Table Nuclear Bomb"

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Re: The kitchen table atom bomb

Photo:  Nagasaki in 1945: Cities today are vulnerable

By Alex Kirby, BBC News Online environment correspondent



Gentlemen,



The enthusiasm of the Oxford Group, Greenpeace, and so on for their

causes is understandable regardless of their credibility. I am once

again dismayed, however, by the inability of a once respected world news

organization to separate or at least evaluate the difference between

facts and ludicrous fictions. I should have thought that you have

editors to perform at least cursory evaluations in order to achieve this

separation so that the BBC presents news rather than comedy in its news

venues. There obviously are available well educated and experienced

nuclear experts who could have saved you from the embarrassment of

publishing this fun piece furnished to you by Mr. Kirby.



Articles of this sort surely are a major reason why the so-called

mainstream press continues to lose worldwide readers/listeners. In days

long past, the British Broadcasting Corporation was at a peak; you were

one of the most respected and most listened to sources of balanced

worldwide news. I hope you can return to these standards, but you cannot

do it with the likes this fairy tale.



Sincerely,

Maury Siskel

4516 Cummings Dr.

Ft. Worth TX USA

maury@webtexas.com



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