posted on June 3, 2002 11:02:49 AM new
This story summarizes the battle between India and Pakistan and the ignorance of the Hindus that may destroy the world.
One Western diplomat worried aloud that "these people have never heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," but, then again, perhaps Westerners have trouble understanding the concept of reincarnation, which figures prominently in the religions of Asia, and especially in the Hindu tradition. You may be incinerated by a nuclear bomb in this life, but don't worry – you'll come back. Perhaps as a citizen of a more civilized country, where the idea of mass death is unthinkable. It's the next best thing to a green card.
A single meal that will energize a soldier sufficiently to fight for a month; footwear that enables the wearer to walk for hundreds of miles without tiring – thanks to the application of a serum made from the flesh of owls and vultures; a magic fairy-dust made of fireflies and the eyes of wild boar that bestows the ability to see in the dark: these projects, as well as numerous recipes for chemical warfare, are being decoded from the ancient Hindu texts by Indian scientists. Given the growing US-Indian military relationship, one can legitimately wonder if perhaps US tax dollars are being used to investigate the military uses of sacred bat guano mixed with eye of newt.
posted on June 3, 2002 02:20:10 PM new
Has anyone concidered that this world may need a real nuclear exchange? Maybe, by sacrificing these two nations: India and Pakistan to nucluear holocaust of their own making, can we pre-empt the usage elsewhere on the planet. When the thought of reincarnating onto the highly radioactive surfaces of those countries hits home, maybe even Bush will stop drooling over the thought of wasting our neighbors with these weapons.
A full scale nuclear exchange could kill as many as 12 million people and injure 6 million not including long term radiation. Casualties would of course include U.S. troops stationed in the region. Radiation effects as far away as the US would be small.
from the article....
But it is difficult to predict the extent of radiation spread precisely, because many factors play into it, all experts agreed. The most crucial factor is whether the blasts occur on the ground or in the air. A nuclear blast in the air produces a bigger fireball and more destruction in the immediate blast area, but little fallout, said physicist John D. Boice Jr. of the Vanderbilt University Medical School.
The bombs that exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II were both detonated in the air, and "there was no fallout," he said. "The radiation didn't travel at all." As a consequence, the health effects observed were in people directly exposed to radiation from the blast.
But if a bomb is detonated on the ground, huge quantities of dirt are vaporized and hurled into the sky, carrying radioactive isotopes such as strontium, cesium and iodine with them. If this fallout reaches the stratosphere, it can travel long distances.
In fact, fallout from above-ground nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s was dispersed throughout the world, even to the North and South Poles. But it gets diluted very rapidly so that little falls to the ground in any one area unless there are highly unusual meteorological conditions.
posted on June 3, 2002 05:23:08 PM new
Sorry to run off topic there Helen. It just reminded me of a b-movie I saw a long time ago where these surgeons were working on replacing a guys legs. They were smoking through the operation.
posted on June 4, 2002 08:26:56 AM new
I must admit that the article was somewhat disconcerting. I had almost become convinced by the radical right that the world would become a damn near perfect place once we commited ourselves to theocide toward the muslims. Now it looks like we'll have to take out the Hindus also, since we know that if some aspire to world dominance they likely all do. Why there could be almost no end to the number of groups that we need to extinguish to prevent their desire to become the master race or religion.
posted on June 4, 2002 12:16:57 PM new
>>Sorry to run off topic there Helen. It just reminded me of a b-movie I saw a long time ago where these surgeons were working on replacing a guys legs. They were smoking through the operation.<<
