Why the hell would his company make this man walk the line? Why did they
put the gun to his head, to make him conceal mortal danger? It was the
money. It's always the money. Fixing the seismic problem would have cost
the plant's owner half a billion dollars easy. A guy from corporate
told Dick, "Bob is a good man. He'll do what's right. Don't worry about
Bob."
That is, they thought Bob would save his job and career rather than rat out the company to the feds.
But I think we should all worry about Bob. The company he worked for,
Stone & Webster Engineering, built or designed about a third of the
nuclear plants in the United States.
From the fifty-second floor we could look at the Statue of Liberty. She didn't look back.
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