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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