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radioactive levels. In the novel, , when the character Moira Davidson, a young ambitious girl who wanted to study and visit places throughout the world is faced with the fact that neither she nor anybody else in the Southern Hemisphere is going to live for more than a few months because of a nuclear bomb launched in the Northern Hemisphere, she gets very furious and frustrated. She says, “There never was a bomb dropped in the Southern Hemisphere. Why must it come to us?”(7th last line, pg. 29) But, Moira wasn’t the only one who was complaining. Almost every soul on the rest of the planet shared her thought because of various reasons; a developing country like China who was at the peak of becoming one of the world’s biggest industrial power was destroyed, Russia, a country with abundant land was destroyed within days and last but not the least the people living in the countries of the Northern Hemisphere where the war began were the first ones to experience their inevitable ...

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that they were going to die and carried out their lives as if nothing had been altered. Especially the characters Peter, lieutenant commander of the Royal Australian Navy and his wife Mary Holmes weren’t much disturbed by the fact that they were soon going to perish into dust. They were thinking and making plans for the future such as, when will they plant their garden, how is their daughter going to be when she grows up, if or not they should buy a new car et cetera. They knew that they were going to die soon, but still pretended as if it would be a long time before they did. On the other hand, one of the other main characters, Commander Dwight Towers of the U.S. Navy was in a state ...

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