Read the following and discuss:

• "How can I forget that stillness prevailing over the city of 300,000 amidst that calm

How can I forget the entreaties of the departed wife and child through their orbs of eyes Cutting through our minds and souls."

- Toge-Sankichi : Hibakusha (A-bomb survivor)

1. Read the following extracts and discuss in groups of four.

On August 6, 1945, the Enda Gay, a USA bomber, dropped a bomb called "Little Boy" on Hiroshima.

• 80,000 people were killed instantly.

• Out of the city's 55 hospitals, only 3 were usable after the blast.

• 90% of all doctors and nurses in Hiroshima were killed or injured.

• Radiation claimed many more lives after the bomb was dropped.

• The intial heat blast was 900 times hotter than the sun.

• Bodies were vapourised underneath the bomb blast.

• By 1950, 200,000 people had died as a result of the bomb.

• Between 1950 and 1980, a further 97,000 people died from cancers associated with the radiation: "Little Boy".

J. Garrison, a press reporter wrote:

"The people exposed within that doomed section (the area directly underneath the bomb blast) neither knew or felt anything, and their blackened unrecognisable forms dropped silently where they stood."

• Make a list of possible disasters that can completely change your life, if you are one of the lucky survivors.

1. Earthquakes fires

2. floods

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