Atomic warfare in India 8000 years ago?, page 1
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Topic started on 28-6-2005 @ 11:51 AM by jonSUN
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I only found the same article printed on different sites. Could this be true.? Any1 have any other info on this? This is what it reads below.




ANCIENT CITY FOUND, IRRADIATED FROM ATOMIC BLAST
SOURCE:: World Island Review, January 1992

Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous.

A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built.

For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction. The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators' gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.

The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent. "A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe...An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor...it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race.

"The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white.

"After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river."

A HISTORIAN COMMENTS

Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots and final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a section of the Mahabharata. "The passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of trees," says Ganguli.

"Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings of giant parasols. There are comments about the contamination of food and people's hair falling out."

ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION PROVIDES INFORMATION

Archeologist Francis Taylor says that etchings in some nearby temples he has managed to translate suggest that they prayed to be spared from the great light that was coming to lay ruin to the city. "It's so mid-boggling to imagine that some civilization had nuclear technology before we did. The radioactive ash adds credibility to the ancient Indian records that describe atomic warfare."

Construction has halted while the five member team conducts the investigation. The foreman of the project is Lee Hundley, who pioneered the investigation after the high level of radiation was discovered.


[edit on 28-6-2005 by jonSUN]


reply posted on 28-6-2005 @ 03:34 PM by Byrd
No, it's not true.

The site is, in fact, a popular tourist destination:
www.rajasthantravelguide.com...

There's tons of photos all over the place, which would not be possible if the site had much radiation (it'd kill the film.) It's a very lively place, with wonderful archaeological sites and very old buildings. It's a crossroads for traders and there's also a number of important religious festivals there. It's one of the great sacred sites in India:
www.tiscali.co.uk...

It does have two modern nuclear power plants, and is an important source for limestone and copper:
www.photius.com...


I'm not sure what the original story for this (frequently debunked) piece is, OR what the writers' motive is. It appears to be fairly modern and may be related to an inter-class war (blaming the Brahamans) www.dalitstan.org... -- given the heavy (and wrong) overtones of the piece. Or it might have been part of a screed against atomic power in its original form.

Interestingly enough, "The Mahabharata text" actually doesn't exist. You can go read The Mahabharata for yourself.

And in either case, the piece you found isn't correct.



(edited to add that they DID have writing in India in 6,000 BC and again, there's nothing about atomic warfare or anything that sounded like it in the writings.)

[edit on 28-6-2005 by Byrd]


reply posted on 30-6-2005 @ 11:53 AM by ZeddicusZulZorander
I believe I have posted on this before, but here is similar info again...

IF there is radiation, it does NOT have to mean there was a "nuclear war" in times of old. Here is another solution and one that is far more plausable.

Natural sources of radiation include cosmic rays, radon gas, AND radioactive elements in the earth's crust. Many naturally occurring elements are radioactive with half-lives of many hundreds of years.


Humans, animals and plants have been exposed to natural radiation since the creation of life. Interestingly, life evolved in a radiation field that was much more intense than today. The annual effective radiation dose from natural and man-made sources for the world's population is about 3 mSv, which includes exposure to alpha radiation from radon and its progeny nuclides. Nearly 80% of this dose (2.4 mSv) comes from natural background radiation, although levels of natural radiation can vary greatly. Ramsar, a northern coastal city in Iran, has areas with some of the highest levels of natural radiation measured to date.


Inhabitants who live in some houses in this area receive annual doses as high as 132 mSv from external terrestrial sources. The radioactivity of the high background radiation areas (HBRAs) of Ramsar is due to Ra-226 and its decay products, which have been brought to the surface by the waters of hot springs. There are more than 9 hot springs with different concentrations of radium in Ramsar that are used as spas by both tourists and residents.

High Background Radiation Areas of Ramsar, Iran


Also I believe THIS to be some notable information.

Rajasthan occupies an important place in the activities of the DAE. Presently there are four power reactors operating in Rajasthan (RAPS 1,2,3 & 4), two are under construction (RAPS-5 & 6) and a few more are to come up in future. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is determined to make Rawatbhata as a nuclear park. RAPS-1 is in fact the first of the pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs), which form the mainstream of the first stage of the Indian Nuclear Power Programme. Currently 12 PHWRs in operation in various parts of the country. A Heavy Water Plant and a Cobalt-60 Facility (RAPCOF) are operational at Rawatbhata. The astronomy-research facility GRACE of DAE is also situated at Mount Abu.

Rajasthan has also the distinction of having the singular site (Pokhran) where all nuclear tests have been conducted by the Department, and which have contributed immensely to national security. On this account, not only the people of Rajasthan, but the whole country derives great pride from these achievements.
www.dae.gov.in...


Finally, what is interesting is you have a location with high radiation and supposed black ash rocks and charred skeletons. Archeologist Francis Taylor seems to be at the center of this story, but nobody can find such a person exsists or has ever existed. For reasons of contamination in the people of that area, experts in radiation found that wood that was used in the power plant for construction, pallets, etc had made it's way into society and used in other construction or for firewood. Make that radiated wood in case you missed that...

You will also note, that in India, there are no newspapers that carry the story of this supposed discovery and Indian archaeological authorities have no stories on this either.

There are other natural reasons I could mention as well, including volcanic ash from a eruption being carried to the surface with a high radiation level, and spread over a wide area.

I would think any of these possibilities are far more plausable than linking radiation to an ancient writing that might be pure fantasy, translated incorrectly, or not even exist.
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