On 28 March 2005, a powerful aftershock measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale struck the west coast of Sumatra the islands of Nias, Simeulue and Banyak were the worst affected.

It is also the sixtieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the aftershock of the cataclysm of the atomic bomb, a terrifying truth was revealed that with every technological leap forward, greater and more terrible dangers arise.