The administration of the US president decided to send a team of five nuclear physicists to study the accident in the Gulf of Mexico. As you know, a real environmental catastrophe is happening there now: it’s impossible to stop a leak from an oil well.
The
five-member group includes 82-year-old Richard Garwin, the developer of the first hydrogen bomb, and Tom Hunter, head of the research lab at Sandia National Labs, which specializes in developing some of the components of a nuclear weapon.
It is possible that the US authorities are still inclined to the option of a
nuclear explosion .
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Reportedly, a five-hour meeting was held under the government, in which physicists and other specialists took part. BP oil giant president Tony Hayward, who took part in the meeting, said that they "very deeply penetrated into the situation and expressed some good ideas, and then settled on one really good idea," but Heyward refused to say what exactly.