THE SEP-UL-CHER FOR POSTERITY
NUCLEAR HARM AN ANALYSIS
The recent mass destruction due to Tsunami and subsequent Nuclear blast in Japan has put in a question of how safe we are in a Nuclear world, what kind of safety that we as an human entity have against such destructive devices in the hands of various countries, one trigger happy parasite can annihilate the whole human existence.
We are told that 30 rems (meaning roentgen equivalent in Man)can have significant changes in the blood streams , and about 80 to 128 rems can make you sick for life like having permanent sickness like Cancer, haemorrhages, and about 300 or more rems can be fatal, ( The Rem is unit used to measure the radiation dosage on human being). Having said this in the event of a Nuclear explosion one is not sure what will be the dosage one gets which largely depends upon the location and how closer you are to the site of explosion. It Is also told that the radiation lingers long enough to reach out, through Air , to maximum distance ,which can only be assessed by the intensity of the Nuke bomb, its capacity, and the wind speed at that point of time.
In lay man parlance in the first minute of the blast after detonation there are three damages that can be caused which are Thermal radiation the low yield of which is 35% or More in less than 100ft and it can go as high as 45- 48%, then you have Blast wave which is 60% low yield and 50% high yield and the third damage causing is ionizing radiations which is at 5%, the radioactive decay of the fall out releases additional 5 to 10%, in nutshell you can near holocaust in the event of a Nuke War.
As per the inventor of law of relativity Albert Einstein “The Law of Mathematics refers to reality, they are not certain, as far as the y are certain, they do not refer to reality,” The quote of this genius holds good when senior scientist predicts and perfects Nuke weapons and its safe gaurds. The Lab trials or mock test are okay in its controlled atmosphere, the job said is well done, but we cannot calculate the intensity of the blast if the said bomb is to explode in places with petroleum or Chemical plants as the same can trigger multiple effect on the human populace which can be on a geometric proportion.
Dr.Tatsurichiro Akizuki has detailed in his book Nagasaki 1945 the real account of Automic explosion as he was the eye witness to the tragedy and has administered medicine to the effected victims, he himself got the effect of radiation and had constant fever and diahorea, he claims that his selfless service to save life was appreciated by the God almighty and he escaped from the jaws of death to live yet again.
We have seen only a Atomic blast since its discovery at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and we cannot afford to do on field trials of Nuke Bomb, the Scientific calculation and Matrixes can go hay wire if the said bomb disturbs the craters of the Earth which in turn can cause havoc. Why just warfare ? look at the accidents that are before us ,since Nuclear Invention , The Chernobyl 1000 mega watts power reactor in USSR, The Three Mile Island near Pennsylvania, Presently in Japan are glaring example of how unequipped we are against this deadly Energy and how insufficient we are in our Nuclear safeguard as these happened in the most dev eloped countries. Here we should imagine what will be situation if it has to happen in Pakistan , North Korea or India where we have limited experience as compared to major republics.
We have seen major scientific breakthrough in the last 100 odd years including Nuke ,Atomic enery & plastics, some of them did really bring in some comforts to us, but we failed to understand all this scientific inventions and its subsequent use will have a telling effect on the Earth’s craters. While we cooled our Bed rooms with Air Conditioners, we heated up the Earth with indiscriminate use of plastics and petroleum products which is unwise decision. We set certain values to all that we discovered and manufactured things only keeping in mind the bottom line of the establishment, but forgetting the long terms consequences on the Ecology.
While my argument is not against invention or its commercial application, but what about our concern for sustainability factor, why did we forget this most crucial factor in the first place, while we all know plastic was a good product but why did we go overboard in the use of plastic. Why did we forget the need for recycling. Here some companies and organisation have developed ‘CRADLE TO CRADLE’ DESIGN PROTOCOL, which simply means mimicking natures organic life cycle, here after the end use of the product, the product is returned to the manufacturer for recycling”, The people behind this design protocol is William McDonough an designer and Michael Braungart a chemist, and their design protocol is called MBDC chemistry. While this is a step in the positive direction and companies like Rebook, Nike, Shaw etc are embracing this production models as part of their environmental commitments.
All this put a common question as to why did we lack the foresight of having such production models before venturing into commercial production of plastic and petroleum products, we do only do a corrective surgery , why not prevent the abuse in the first place.
The Nuke power and plastics are only inferences, we need a macro level understanding of Science and its discoveries, we need to understand them first and then embrace them, keeping in mind the impact its by -product has on the Ecology . The mindless embracement of human findings can lead us to the throes of mass destruction, as the Ecology has its own pressure release system in place, which we have seen in the form of Tsunami, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Melting of Ozone layers etc., which in turn have definite bearing on human health and we can contract all types of epidemic like radiational effect, plagues etc., while the human capacity is measureable but no one can measure Nature in its entirety, while she will give us all in abundance her wealth, she the Mother Nature can be a good disciplinarian as well.
We should also understand who the users of these inventions are; the Psychiatry of human mind is not accessible to scientific findings, as such we should factor socio-economic background of all the people while inventing dangerous product like Nuke. In this case the mindless republics like United States and Soviet Union during their Cold War Era has equipped their Satellites like Pakistan, North Korea etc., with Nuke Capabilities what will happen to its Nuke installation, if they were to fall into the hands of Militant Groups, like Taliban or Lakshera Tioba, who were nurtured by the very American in their war for supremacy in Afghanistan. The Bush and Blair’s of the Western world with half the information about “weapons of mass destruction “ waged a mindless war on Iraq and the present dispensation in United States is keen on a War with Iran and North Korea, if any of these countries have Nuke power and something drastic happens, The World is at loss to understand the results of such devastations. This could challenge very existence of Human Race. The error in human judgment is possible, but what about the ramification of its fall out both for the present and posterity a quiz that needs to be answered.
To find that Answer out we should understand our History, Mythology, We have had many civilization like the Indus valley Civilization, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, The Ancient Greek Civilization etc., all this have been sunk under this Earth, and what remains, is just the tip of the Ice berg, How these civilisation sunk, causes, effects are something very debateable till date, Scientific rationale lacks reasoning, we are just left with only the remnants of the past.
In the Maha Bharatha we were told the use of sophisticated Astras (Arrows) like Brahmastra,Nagastras etc., can we now decipher them to the present context of Nuke/Atomic power or at least Chemical Warfare. While stating that, I would like to mention that the evidence of Virtual reality was also seen, as Drudarashtra heard the entire War, scene by scene from Vidthura miles away from the War field. We could also understand they had knowledge of making Test tube babies, the Kauravas were born through this method ,then material used we are told are pots. There is a mention of Telephony in the form of a Statement , saying sound passes through air, all this constitutes a well developed Scientific structure existing then and what happened to them are still a Myths.
We have a mention of Brahma Ratri and Brahmaodaya, in the Bhagavat Gita “ which states that I will ensure that I will end all lives in this world during Brahma Ratri which will last for one thousand years and I will resurrect these lives through my fertility during the Brahmaodaya which will last for the next thousand years,” can this be interpreted as after every civilisation there has been mass destruction or a deluge and for resurrection it has taken a period equivalent to around 1000 years.
We do not know whether we are entering into the portals of a holocaust, but can be sure that for now, are we on a cliff, are we going to be merchants of deaths, are we to leave only Sep-ul-cher’s to our posterity ? or is it the time to Act, Let us arise from the comatose slumb we are in now, and undo mistakes what we have done in the past or else we will slip from the comatose slumb to comma. A time for introspection.
Ramesh.V.Naivaruni
Bangalore
19th March 2011
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