Message #232986

[Ceneca]

April 25, 2011 -- A quarter century after Chernobyl, and more than 65 years after atomic bombs laid waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fatally sickening thousands not killed outright, even unfounded fear of radioactive contamination can spark panic. The root of anything that can penetrate the human body triggers an ancestral fear, according to one neurologist. When the culprit is invisible, odorless, tasteless -- beyond, in other words, the reach of perception -- that angst is magnified even more.