The largest and most tragic industrial accident in history occurred in 1986 in Russia. It was the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. But it was not really an accident. Now that the Cold War has ended, more information is available about that tragedy. Two electrical engineers were on duty that night. Whether they were sober or not is unclear, but they were playing around with the machines. These engineers had to override manually six separate computer-driven alarm systems. One by one the computers said, "Stop! Dangerous! Go no further!" But one by one these computers were shut off by the engineers and they proceeded with their experiment. We will never know the full extent of the tragedy of Chernobyl. The nuclear fallout from it was recorded allover the world.

Those two engineers remind me of Adam …