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ATOMIC WARFARE AND EFFETS OF
RADIATION
BY
Muhammad Yousaf Gabriel
Oqasaorg@gmail.com
No scientist of average understanding will upon
some reflection miss the point that the difference between the
devastation brought about by the commencement of atomic warfare
and the adoption of atomic-energy for peace, excepting indeed
the blast, ultimately differs n terms only that is, the short
term and the long term. The atomic bomb brings about the prompt
disintegration of life and property, while the atomic reactor
works the destruction slowly, systematically and indefinitely.
Scriptural warnings and philosophical reasoning could in this
age be ignored, but that the scientific facts be neglected in
this age is no doubt surprising. That the men of this age play
the deaf, the dumb and the blind to the warnings of science
itself, could only be attributed to the impelling influence of
the three evils, namely slander, wealth accumulation and wealth
worship. The history has come to repeat itself. The Delilah of
science has discovered the secret of the strength of the atomic
Samson. The modern materialistic philistines have captured it.
They have employed him as a slave and have commanded him to show
feats of his unusual strength. No doubt, inn the end he will
show them yet another fact of his formidable strength on his own
accord, and will I this bring the whole roof of their
amphitheatre down upon theirs and upon his own utter ruin.
Mankind, atomic energy, science, and indeed the entire creation
on earth shall disappear due only to one little misunderstanding
of the scientist regarding the atomic energy in that he failed
to recognize its exceptional position in the field of science,
ignoring the fact that the atomic bomb was the legal offspring
of the illegal dam the atomic energy that would damn the world.
The basic rule of the methodology of science could perhaps have
been applied to atomic energy. But all the difference has been
made by the presence of the atomic radiations, that are inherent
in the very nature of the atomic energy and cannot be separated
or segregated, and makes the universal control impossible. The
atomic bomb too could perhaps have been tolerated by mankind as
a little too powerful a destroyer of life and property if the
factor of the atomic radiation were not there. The successful
detonation of the Hydrogen bomb could have been hailed by the
belligerent nations as great triumph, but the factor of the
global and hence most dangerous kind of the radiological hazard
in the form of fallout spoiled all the expected joy of the
spirit of bellicosity. Real satisfaction is to be found in the
fact that perhaps this present generation will pass away after
enjoying the full advantages of atomic energy leaving all the
consequent miseries, cancer, leprosy, chimerism, impotency and
hemorrhages for the future ge4nerations with whom they can have
no sympathies in the present gratification of present lust. They
who may soon develop the symptoms cannibalism, they who now
show signs of cannibalistic tendencies to fall on each other and
tear the flesh and eat it up. What regard they may be expected
to have for their future generations which even have not
appeared as yet and are behind the curtain of futurity. Yes
indeed. The much dreaded cannibalisms could not have been worse.
The energy-hungry mankind must know that the atomic energy could
have been used as energy provided there were no radiations, or
provided radiations could have been controlled. There is yet
another factor which deserves serious consideration. The mere
existence of atomic energy in the world constitutes a perpetual
heart on that it is the source of the atomic bomb. Despite all
the assurances to the contrary the possibility of atomic war in
the presence of atomic energy cannot be excluded. At present the
atomic bomb is hated and dreaded but in future when mankind will
be groaning under the miseries of life brought about the
presence of the atomic radiations, they may hail the atomic bomb
as their savior and redeemer.
Far graver indeed is yet
another aspect, the one that i.e. hidden from the materialistic
age, via, that of the eternal life in heaven. It has to be
remembered that the every same caused that have produced the
atomic bomb in this world are given out by the prophecy of the
Quran (Al –Homaza-104) as responsible for the punishment in
Al-Hotama, to mean that they who have been rendered liable to
the punishment of atomic bombs in this transient world are also
liable to the punishment of atomic bombs in this transient world
are also liable to the punishment of the Al-Hotama in the next
eternal world. How grievous a consideration and how grievous a
punishment. Here in this transient world there is at least some
consolation in thought that death ultimately would relieve from
the torture, but what hope is there to relieve anyone from the
torture of the next eternal world. There the torture of
Al-Hotama shall be for ever. endlessly to the eternity. If the
word of a scripture has been proved in this world, why then it
should fail in the next world. A solitary voice in the
thundering storm of the tyrannical necessities of life may have
a meager chance of being heard by a preoccupied mankind but the
consequences of missing this voice may certainly be dire. What
ever the situation, the warning ought to be sounded, lest they
say, we were not told, we might perhaps have been saved. The
conniving scientist, the zealous politician, the enthuastic
industrialist and indeed all the carving mankind will be sobered
at the first glimpse of the terror which is atom bob. The atomic
energy for peace, however, may take time to reveal its truth to
the world. The dreadful doom shall inevitably come with a double
misery for the scientist, but until the basic causes of the
trouble are considered the ears and the eyes shall remain
sealed, and until the basic causes are remove, the threat of the
atomic devastation will lurk about the world. A revolution of
thought indeed as great, and as dynamic, and as universal as the
prevailing set up of atomism in the world is required to avert
the atomic doom. Providence has the power to change the hearts,
though all the necessary knowledge is there.
All the
necessary Knowledge is indeed there. It is known that the atomic
bomb is not a weapon of war but a means of complete annihilation
of life son earth. It is known that there is no universal
protection for mankind against radiation, nor is there any sure
cure for the injuries caused by it. It is known that the genetic
effects of radiation are irreversible and irreparable, and that
the precessive genes are inheritable, cumulative and
multiplicative. And it is well known that the effects of
radiation will in the end change the entire human race and the
whole mammalian world and the complete plant world into chimeras
till they become extinct, and it is also known that nothing
could be done to stop the effects of radiation, And much more is
known with utmost certainty, If all this be true and it is no
mere fantasy. What plausibility is there to adopt the
atomic-energy for peace? But will anyone hear? To what else such
an attitude could be attributed except the hypnotic influence of
a dreadful doom. Thee example of the scientists who base their
permission of the atomic energy for peace on their hope in
finding some day the protective and curative measures against
the effects of radiations is that of the doctor who knowing that
there existed no antidote. For a certain poison would cause his
patient to swallow the poison in the hope of anyhow finding some
antidote. The case of radiations is even more serious then that
of any poison, since poison affects the present person while
radiations affect even future generations like a multiplicative
epidemic, which of the sides of the attitude of the scientist we
then have to believe? Hi frightful description of the hazards of
the atomic radiations and his confessions of human helplessness
against the effects of radiations or his recommendations of
atomic energy base on his assurances of the innocuity of atomic
energy for peace. Does this labeling of atomic energy with peace
anyway changes its inherent nature, or neutralizes in any way
its noxious effects. Our surmise is that the atomic energy and
peace are contradicted in terms. Is then this our surmise wrong,
misjudged, and exaggerated?
The delusions of the
politician and the industrialist will eventually be broken. The
atomic stockpiles ultimately will fail to prove a perpetual
deterrent against the aggression. As far as the atomic energy
for Peace is concerned, no doubt, the eventual harm will sallow
up the preliminary advantage. The invisible bane o radiations
will gradually impair the health of the general public to the
degree that no the workshops, fields and factories, but
hospitals, sick houses and asylums will be the usual haunts of
the people. Investments will sink, and sink indeed will the
general health of the people with resulting bankruptcy
everywhere. Banks, financiers, Governments will on and all turn
bankrupt me the real sense of the Word. In the whole it will be
a sick world. The bait of temptation which had in the beginning
been found in the great energy potential would long since have
been disappeared in the consequent miseries. The present
generations shall have a bite at the bait but some future
generation shall find itself helplessly fallen into a trap of
hellish miseries. The atomic energy offers two alternatives and
we only, namely, a sudden instantaneous destruction through
atomic bombs, or a systematic decay or a systematic decay of
life through atomic energy for peace after a miserable spell of
indenite existence on earth. Any amount of radiation and any
dose rate are decisively deleterious to health and life.
Protection against radiation can only be secured by covering
completely materially the actual source of atomic energy. Even
this extreme protection is not hundred percent foolproof and
always the possibility of occasional leakage of radiation
remains to hazard the health and life through radiation injury.
Irreversible and irreparable in case of the genetic damage. The
danger of a reactor occasionally running out of control, or even
exploding with the resultant inundation of the whole neighboring
district with radiation playing havoc with the health and life
of the unprotected people in a terrific holocaust, causing
radiation sickness and mutating the genes cannot be ruled out.
There is a great probability of the aged reactor’s ending its
life span in explosion. Great care is as yet taken in covering
every reactor and a medley of extremely sensitive instruments
are attached to it for the detection of the slightest leakage of
radiation, and special radiation proof dresses have been
designed to protect the employees of the atomic plants against
the ever impeding hazards of radiation. Yet neither the
occasional leakage nor the possibility of the explosion of the
reactor could anyway be avoided nor could every single member of
mankind at large be expected to be constantly wrapped up a
shroud of a dress that has been made proof against radiation and
which has to be worn. Perpetually from birth to death like the
skin itself, to be changed only on a close radiation proof room
, for who know when and where the lurking radiation may be to
take advantage of the occasion and attack the person during the
change of dress. It is a somber picture. This world like a world
of snails creeping in their radiation proof shells. Terrorizing
hazards of the invisible and insidious radiations will be the
harassing problem. The world it seems is resolved to meet a
formidable foe, a foe armed dangerously to its teeth, and offer
a combat wearing a broken helmet with numerous holes, and
carrying smithereens of a shield as a symbol of heraldry, and
wearing no armor not even a shirt.. This is not merely a
picturesque piece of a rhetoric portrayal but this actually is
the representative situation of human defense against radiation;
The broken helmet is the symbol of the covered sources of
radiation e.g in reactors. They are like a broken helmet
because they frequently leak. The smithereens of a shield
represent the defense against the exploded reactor, while the
absence of an amour, even a shirt is the emblematic
representation of the defenselessness of the individual bodies
of mankind at large against radiation. No humaninally great
sagacity is required to discover the fault of the understanding
of even the most intelligent among to votaries of the atomic
energy. The same may with much plausibility be said of these
among the scientists who are not hesitate in recommending the
use of the atomic energy for peace. They are all riding the
waves of the present in extreme helplessness utterly forgetful
of the future. Let whatever the degree of helplessness and
howsoever great the surety of the comparative immunity of the
present generation from the harmful effects of radiation, the
unfailing and painful voice of conscience regarding the
unspeakable miseries of our future generations, our own blood
ought not be discarded for even though we may pass our lifespan
in this world without any fear of retribution, we at least must
remember our inevitable liability impeachment in the next world
before the throne of God where all of us, both we of this
present generation and those of our future generation will stand
face to face to answer for our behavior in respect to our
descendants , and in case found guilty of great .
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