http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster ...25 years ago this very day, the biggest Peacetime, civilian nuclear disaster took place. They called it "an accident"..... The first nuclear disasters were probably the two nuclear bombs at the end of World War Two , dropped on Japan by American forces ...... The differences are enormous. In the case of the first in Japan, there was no doubt about cause, nor of responsability. The fact that the responsables were in a wartime stand-by mode supposedly relieves them of any charges of crime against humanity . It's a question of opinion. The second, at   Tschernobyl is totally different. Civilian responsability was, and still is being hidden. The figures of dead, injured and ongoing sufferers is not even known, and no Government is terribly interested in finding out! Personally, I am sure that my life was changed totally by the second event. Both I and my wife were travelling back and fro' France - Germany , b...

Image via Wikipedia The enormity of what is happening and has happened in Japan is difficult to beleive. I'm not too sure that we're finished hearing new headlines, certainly from Japan, and if I lived on the Pacific coast side of the USA , I'd be jumping up at any noises in or around the house. It seems to be in the nature of people, even here in France - not particularly earthquake threatened, to build on risky places, take the chance and then wonder what went wrong. Some places it's difficult not to - like Japan - where it seems that the whole country is at risk - all the time. Of course, there are those people who insist that all this is " God 's revenge for the IInd World War atrocities" - they are just plain maniacs. Together with the invitation to view (below) here is a link to the Google participation Site.... http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html This is Google's participation....much criticised Google..... ...