Unleashing "virtual disasters" could then enable researchers and government officials to grasp the region-wide effects of a major quake or storm and decide which measures today would prevent the most damage.
Vanya's ultimate gesture of revolt is to steal his father's knife, a transgression that seems to unleash the climactic disaster.
But when nature saw fit to unleash a major disaster in the middle of her journey, stranding her inside the disorder at Schiphol, it was a network of strangers, energized by a desperate message put out on the Internet, that came to her rescue.
Even Communist party historians describe it as a disaster, unleashed by Mao Zedong.
They will now say it was only a matter of time before one of the hugely-profitable shows unleashed such a disaster.
Since an earthquake and tsunami unleashed a nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima reactors in March, several countries have distanced themselves from nuclear energy.
Here, he's called Pete Verrill and is played by Jeff Fahey as an unwilling but curious onlooker at the disaster unleashed by Wilson's obsession with elephant hunting at the expense (both financial and moral) of the film.
The delay in assistance along with a lack of rigorous inquiry into the magnitude of the environmental disaster unleashed that day is all the more disturbing, they say, as the country faces a future in which such disasters could happen again.
World War II, the disaster unleashed by Nazism, ended less than 70 years ago.
Russia's unchecked power play in Syria empowers the Assad regime to slaughter its way to survival, unleashing a humanitarian disaster which has helped destabilize Europe.
