{"id":9418,"date":"2011-03-12T00:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T08:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2011-03-12T01:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T09:13:06","slug":"nippons-nuclear-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/nippons-nuclear-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Nippon’s Nuclear Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Japanese desperately <\/a>try to cool down two overheated nuclear reactors, damaged in the massive earthquake, Nippon’s nuclear curse rises like a ghost from the grave, haunting that brave nation like a demon out of hell. It is a demon seed of the war god, Satan’s spawn, threatening the uniquely austere beauty <\/a>of a country with a pronounced sense of place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An explosion <\/a>has been reported in one of the reactors: the outer shell that houses the reactor has blown off, leaving its pulsing heart exposed — and on the brink of an eruption, a tsunami of fire. The experts are comparing it to Three Mile Island, to ward off the specter of another Chernybol<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now this. Japan’s nuclear curse is coming back to haunt us all, and the ripples are sure to spread far and wide. A mighty blow has been delivered against\u00a0the second largest <\/a>market in the world, and\u00a0world markets are already reacting to what some analysts are calling a “perfect storm<\/a>” of ongoing bad news. A nuclear meltdown in Japan could set off a global financial meltdown — so that more than just a few foolhardy tsunami-watchers\u00a0<\/a>in California\u00a0are swept out to sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Japanese desperately try to cool down two overheated nuclear reactors, damaged in the massive earthquake, Nippon’s nuclear curse rises like a ghost from the grave, haunting that brave nation like a demon out of hell. It is a demon seed of the war god, Satan’s spawn, threatening the uniquely austere beauty of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}