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.
