Shortly after the Chernobyl disaster, Gudrun Pausewang wrote Die Wolke, The Cloud. The novel appeared in 1987. It describes the consequences of a possible reactor accident in Germany, told through the fate of a 14-year-old girl. In 1988 it won the German Youth Literature Prize. It has sold more than a million copies, it is read in schools, and it was made into a film. After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Pausewang explained her purpose. Ich wollte warnen. I wanted to warn. Natürlich kann Warnung Angst wecken. Aber man sollte die Angst nicht so verteufeln. Sie wurde uns von der Natur mitgegeben als Hilfe zum Überleben. Of course a warning can awaken fear. But one should not demonize fear so much. Nature gave it to us as a help for survival.