Mosul Dam collapse ‘will be worse than a nuclear bomb’

Warnings by scientists and environmentalists about an imminent collapse are dismissed by Iraqi officials as far-fetched. Floodwater will destroy the infrastructures of all the cities along the Tigris banks [Reuters] As Iraqi forces continue their military operation to take Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), another equally important battle to save the M

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モスルダム "This simulation … results in a very high wave of water, [up to 25 metres high] ... arriving at Mosul after [100 minutes]. The capital Baghdad is reached after 3.5 days with a maximum water height of 8 metres and a mean of around 2 metres."