Abdul Qadeer Khan Quotes
When lab safety procedures aren't followed, people can get hurt or worse. Lab equipment and chemicals that are improperly handled can result in personal injury and even death.
Khan, Abdul Qadeer. Address at the Workshop on Safe Use of Laboratory Equipment. Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, University of Karachi, 21 Nov. 2014.
Six of his miners were killed in a Utah mine accident and three more died trying to rescue them. Although a coal mine owner, he also questions the values of our society, the coal mining industry, and his company—all of which accept the fact that coal mining is a very hazardous enterprise while many argue that we should just use safer energy sources.
China had a similar policy with each side wanting to establish more of a precedent for its ownership of the islands. Military flyovers, landing parties raising national flags by both countries triggered counter measures and the likelihood of casualties and even death to some soldiers. Both sides seemed willing to risk the lives of their troops as long as the conflict could be contained thereafter. But sometimes it cannot be.
Issuing a statement over the health threat of dioxin in 1983:
Fracturing underground shale—fracking—releases natural gas which the US has in an energy equivalent of two Saudi Arabias. However this is done by injecting water and chemicals into the underground shale. The shale is generally below the water table but the concrete shaft that carries the fluid and the gas at high pressure through the water table. There have been serious accidents where drinking water has been polluted. The George W. Bush administration, led by VP Cheney whose company was in the fracking business had a law passed which gave the gas fracking industry the right to endanger or pollute drinking water without the inspection of meeting the standards of the Clean Water Act and other state and federal protection laws. They are also exempt from having to disclose what poisons or carcinogens are in the fracking fluid or how much they are injecting into a community’s land and water. So the best potential option for American Energy independence got caught up with disputes over proper safety and disclosure procedures and the exemptions that were granted by Congress.
The 2013 Congress was one of those that was politically polarized and unresponsive to party leaders. This presented gridlock in legislation that was needed to appropriate the money to maintain the needed level of air traffic controllers. So they were required to take unpaid furloughs reducing the number of air traffic controllers each day. Some critics wanted the Department of Transportation to try and control the usual number of aircraft flights with the reduced workforce. The Secretary refused.
Abdul Qadeer Khan NI, HI, FPAS, DEng, known as A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgist who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb". Khan is celebrated in Pakistan for bringing balance to the South Asian region after India's nuclear tests.
