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Nightmare Vision
Colin Good
Colaiste Chriost Ri, Cork
Colin Good, a transition year student from Colaiste Chriost Ri, Cork writes about his fears in the aftermath of the attack on America.
Pictured above is a scene from Nagasaki,
Japan,
the day after the atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945.
We all have fears. Some may fear love, some fear the unknown, and some
fear death. The worst fear of all is a fear of the future. My vision of
the future is that, if a war does break out and nuclear or biological
weapons are used, of a world not worth living in.
We have all seen the horrors of terrorist attacks in America, the dead
bodies, the crying families and the rows of flowers outside the American
embassy in Dublin. Over the last few weeks we have all changed. If war
does break out it will not be like past conventional wars with navies,
ground-troops, heavily armoured units, fighter planes and bombers. It
will not be fought by soldiers but by scientists that have spent over
55 years developing weapons of mass destruction. At Hiroshima and Nagasaki
over 200,000 were killed by two A-bombs. Now consider the damage if 1000
nuclear bombs were detonated. If you thought the collapse of the World
Trade Centres was bad, imagine every building in every city in every country
being reduced to rubble due to a Nuclear holocaust. Even worse, what would
happen if biological warfare were used? Who can stop the wind that will
carry the bio-weapons?
In the aftermath of such a conflict, humans (if they survived) would be left like animals fighting over resources. They would have to live underground out of the Nuclear Winters and away from the wind. They may envy the dead, the lucky ones who felt nothing, the ones who are free from the radiation. Groups that survive radiation poisoning would be ravaged by civil wars over food, clothes, water and other items we take for granted.