Bhopal disaster (1984): A tank in a crowded city

Bhopal disaster stops where the public record stops. The year is 1984, the line is “A tank in a crowded city,” the figure is 1984. A drama’s dialogue is not the file. Status is mixed because a civil settlement and limited criminal convictions sit beside an unfinished site-cleanup and unfinished arguments about parent-company duty. Dow Chemical’s 2001 acquisition of UCC inherited a leg

Water entering the MIC tank is the physical trigger most official reconstructions accept. How the water got there, and how far that question matters beside disabled safeguards, remains a secondary argument. This page does not reconstruct a method. The public fact is an uncontrolled release over sleeping neighbourhoods.

Hospitals and municipal cremation grounds were overwhelmed on 3 December. The first official immediate count, 2,259, is still the figure many legal summaries use for the night itself. A 2006 government affidavit and later health-department statements raised injury counts above 500,000 and later death attributions into five figures.

Indian Council of Medical Research studies and independent clinics documented chronic illness in exposed wards. English sources that print a single “20,000 dead” without a date are collapsing advocacy totals with the 1984 municipal count. Responsible reference keeps the night, the decade and the model separate.

Say the name, the year, then the figure. For Bhopal disaster, “A tank in a crowded city” is the name of 1984.1984

Figures to keep

Year in the file: 1984
Figure that fixes it: 1984
Case: Bhopal disaster
Line that was public: A tank in a crowded city

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