The invention of the aeroplane in the First world war shattered the conception of the from line of the fighting and the borders of war. Military targets in the enemy territory were bombarded. Often homes and hospitals also were not spared. Thus old men, women, children and patients in hospitals died gruesome deaths; having nothing to do with war. Poisonous gases used in war boiled men to death, or deformed them beyond recognition, or made them mental wrecks, Bacteriological warfare killed thousands by causing epidemics. Thermite used in bombs caused a great scare and havoc to civilian population.
The destructive potentiality of scientific warfare witnessed during the second world war bears an ample testimony to its being inhuman beyond imagination. By the time of this war the modern ware became an extremely loathsome affair. The second world war has beaten all previous records of death and destruction. The magnetic mines in the sea brought disaster to thousands of men, women and children; and consigned them to a watery grave.
Submarines and U-boats made warfare a tragedy of humanity. On the land the use of thermite from aeroplanes caused a deadly boiling of humanity. It was more than a wholesale massacre. Life became wholesale death. But the rising crescendo of the inventions of the war reached its climax in the invention of Atom Bomb by the Germany scientist Otto Hans who was kidnapped from Germany and was brought over to America. Americans Used the Atom Bomb to end war in Japan. The cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were to the ground.
The mass destruction wrought by the atom bomb in Japan, the bacteriological warfare in Korea, the napalm bombs in Malaya are the living witnesses to testify how the ghost of scientific warfare dances on the heap of skeletons and charred bodies. The radio-activity has got its lasting bad effects. The Hydrogen Bomb is an improvement on Atom Bomb. The destructiveness of the former is 1000 times greater than that of the latter. A Hydrogen Bomb may flatten down almost every thing in an area of more than 300 square miles from the bombarded spot. The modern scientific warfare is advancing so rapidly that the guided missile and inter continental Ballistic missile have produced such panic that the world "seems to end tonight." In the age of modern nuclear war weapons the very idea of the possibility of a fool-proof system of defence appears ridiculous.
It is not know what the course of future events will be but it is sure that modern warfare is hellish, and if science does not cut itself asunder from politics and war, the destiny of man is in the hands of the evil. War begins in the minds of men. What is needed today is a change of mind, besides, banning the nuclear weapons. While the last war started with tanks and ended with an Atom Bomb the third world war will start with a Hydrogen-Bomb, and only Heaven knows where it will end.
Dr. Einstein was sure that wars after the third world war would be fought with sticks and stones. This is a very pointed commentary on the modern methods of warfare. Will the war-monger politicians pay any heed to it? After all, who of these politicians will live if the world dies, and who of them will die if the world lives. Mind that great war loving leaders, like great earth-quakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
The destructive potentiality of scientific warfare witnessed during the second world war bears an ample testimony to its being inhuman beyond imagination. By the time of this war the modern ware became an extremely loathsome affair. The second world war has beaten all previous records of death and destruction. The magnetic mines in the sea brought disaster to thousands of men, women and children; and consigned them to a watery grave.
Submarines and U-boats made warfare a tragedy of humanity. On the land the use of thermite from aeroplanes caused a deadly boiling of humanity. It was more than a wholesale massacre. Life became wholesale death. But the rising crescendo of the inventions of the war reached its climax in the invention of Atom Bomb by the Germany scientist Otto Hans who was kidnapped from Germany and was brought over to America. Americans Used the Atom Bomb to end war in Japan. The cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were to the ground.
The mass destruction wrought by the atom bomb in Japan, the bacteriological warfare in Korea, the napalm bombs in Malaya are the living witnesses to testify how the ghost of scientific warfare dances on the heap of skeletons and charred bodies. The radio-activity has got its lasting bad effects. The Hydrogen Bomb is an improvement on Atom Bomb. The destructiveness of the former is 1000 times greater than that of the latter. A Hydrogen Bomb may flatten down almost every thing in an area of more than 300 square miles from the bombarded spot. The modern scientific warfare is advancing so rapidly that the guided missile and inter continental Ballistic missile have produced such panic that the world "seems to end tonight." In the age of modern nuclear war weapons the very idea of the possibility of a fool-proof system of defence appears ridiculous.
It is not know what the course of future events will be but it is sure that modern warfare is hellish, and if science does not cut itself asunder from politics and war, the destiny of man is in the hands of the evil. War begins in the minds of men. What is needed today is a change of mind, besides, banning the nuclear weapons. While the last war started with tanks and ended with an Atom Bomb the third world war will start with a Hydrogen-Bomb, and only Heaven knows where it will end.
Dr. Einstein was sure that wars after the third world war would be fought with sticks and stones. This is a very pointed commentary on the modern methods of warfare. Will the war-monger politicians pay any heed to it? After all, who of these politicians will live if the world dies, and who of them will die if the world lives. Mind that great war loving leaders, like great earth-quakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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