Fukushima.Japan.The Take on the ‘Quake!

Just a few minutes ago 16/03/2011 and nearly a week after the Catastrophe that has reduced Japan to a shadow of its former self, I watched a Sky News broadcast and felt compelled to give my Take on the Quake and the unfolding events at Fukushima!

As a Paid –Up Boomer (you can read into that what you will!) it’s natural that I would be perhaps more aware of the first Nuclear Catastrophe that the USA dumped on Japan in 1945, than my two Daughters who are several generations on from that conflict.

Actually I’m sure that there will be people out there that will say “he’s not really a Boomer coz he was born just a few months short of the Official Boomer Start –up date of Jan 1 1946”. They are entitled to their opinion!

 Yes it’s true I was still two months from seeing the light of day when the horrors of the Atomic Bomb were inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushering in the Nuclear age and arguably the start of the downward spiral of Human Annihilation.

Seeing the footage of the aftermath of Hiroshima many times over in the coming years (as an Adult), it was clearly a demonstration of the awesome power of Nuclear Fission and the miseries it brought.

Japan was brought to its knees and sued for peace almost immediately. Those images of shadows on concrete that had been Human beings, vaporised in an instant, left a strange sickly taste in my mouth which has surfaced many times since, when being exposed to War footage.

To the present:- Japan has atoned for all the horrors it inflicted during World War Two and has become the third largest Economy on Earth with a display of technical  magnificence underpinned by a work culture and pursuit of excellence that we should all admire and endeavour to emulate.

That Japan should be exposed to yet another Nuclear Nightmare, this time, by a force far greater than anything Man could ever develop, is heartbreaking.

Japan did not deserve this cruel blow that has seen whole towns and villages swept away with the death toll still rising. In catastrophes like this it’s probable that the actual death toll, when all is said and done, will never be known.

 The Earthquake producing Tsunami is a fact of life. A fact of life that anyone  living on the Ring of Fire is aware of. The magnitude of an earthquake is something that is indeterminate. The extent of damage and devastation that follows a Mega Quake is something that the whole World now needs to take seriously. Damage limitation procedures should now be top of every countries ” Must Do List”

The Japanese are a Stoical Nation, with a great culture and work ethic, which has got them where they were up until last week! They will rebuild their Nation, while continuing to mourn the loss of so many innocent lives. It’s what they do well!

The economic impact on the rest of the world has yet to be realised, but for sure the ‘Quake and Tsunami will have a significant impact far far away from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant for months and years to come.

Please take a moment to reflect on the suffering that is being endured and born bravely while realising how lucky you are personally not to have to experience this at first hand!

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