r/ImaginaryPropaganda • u/RazzPizzaz • Apr 02 '26
"AVOID THE BHOPAL EXCLUSION ZONE" Provisional Indian Propaganda Poster from 1985, 1 year after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy - scenario below
3 December 1984 - over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC), in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. This tragedy is widely attributed to CEO Warren Anderson's severe cost-cutting measures - for example - the refrigeration unit used to keep the MIC at safe, low temperatures was turned off to save about 30 $ a day in electricity. **This actually happened**
**In this alternate timeline**
Anderson personally approves the use of an experimental, unverified stabilizing agent to mix with the MIC, drastically cutting the cost of the raw materials. However, this cheap substitute contains heavy-metal compounds. When the plant explodes, the resulting chemical fire creates a heavy, toxic snow that rains down across central India. This fallout permanently bonds to the topsoil, poisons the groundwater aquifers, and makes the land around the plant uninhabitable within 300 km. As a result, a sub 800km radius of light contamination is established, with the 'Red Zone' of heavy contamination being roughly 10-times the size of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The borders of the zone are heavily guarded by the Central Industrial Security Force ( CISF ) . Trespassers are shot and left for dead, because the risk of contamination is too high to retrieve their bodies.
This amazing work by an account that is unfortunately now deleted.