ABSTRACT
When we look soberly, however hard it is to do so at the moment, at the political situation and the threat of nuclear warfare, we observe a phenomenon that is more like a surrealist scenario, an unbearable nightmare or a psychosis, than a sane world. The Hiroshima bomb killed at one go 140,000 people and that does not include the many thousands who died from the after-effects or the zombie-like existence of the survivors so vividly described by R.J.Lifton in his studies (1982). ‘But today, on average, each major city in the northern hemisphere is targeted by the equivalent of 2,000 Hiroshima bombs’ (Barnaby, 1983).
