Hiroshima - then and now

This contains the author's impressions and experiences during his stay in Hiroshima. 'It was fascinating for me to realise, from the example of Hiroshima, how powerful nature is and how indestructible life is. Where no grass should grow, there is vegetation now as there was previously. Where not one stone remained on another, a pulsating city lives with twice as many inhabitants as before the explosion of the atomic bomb. Where only the dying and dead reigned, over 800.000 people now live a materially comfortable existence'. Epidemiological data have shown that the propability of dying of one or other type of cancer is 2 to 3 times as great as normally, but that the consequences for successive generations are insignificant in comparison to other environmental toxins. There does not appear to be premature ageing due to radiation, because of non neoplasm effects (orig./HP)