The 1984 environmental disaster in Bhopal, India, was caused by which event?

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The question asks about the cause of the 1984 environmental disaster in Bhopal, India, and provides four options to evaluate.
Option 1: 'leak of highly toxic gas at a chemical manufacturing plant' — This is the historically accurate description. The disaster occurred when methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide, causing widespread exposure and fatalities. This option aligns with established accounts of the incident.
Option 2: 'oil spill when two tankers collided in the Indian Ocean' — This does not apply to Bhopal. The city’s tragedy was not due to an offshore oil spill or maritime collision, and there was no connection to oil tankers in this incident, making this option incorrect.
Option 3: 'explosion at a nuclear plant' — The Bhopal disaster was not a nuclear accident or a reactor explosion. It involved a chemical plant leak, not a nuclear facility, so this choice misidentifies the type of facility and the nature of the accident.
Option 4: 'failure of sirens to warn people of a tsunami after an earthquake' — This describes a tsunami-warning failure scenario, which is unrelated to Bhopal’s event. There was no tsunami or earthquake-triggered warning failure involved in this disaster.
Thus, by evaluating each option, the first choice uniquely matches the well-documented cause of the Bhopal disaster, while the other options describe different kinds of incidents that did not occur in this context.

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The 1984 environmental disaster in Bhopal, India, was caused by which event?

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