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ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACE A CURSE

Gabriel's Extinguishing the atomic hell series volume II

Atomic-Energy-for-Peace, a cruse

allama muhammad yousuf gabriel

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Gabriel's Extinguishing the atomic hell series

volume II

Atomic-Energy-for-Peace, a cruse:

By the infinite grace and boundless mercy of Allah, this series of volumes is my original work. The application of scientific facts, and the new discoveries from the Quran are all my own and quite unknown to anyone, anywhere, Muslim or non-Muslim. And for that, the most benign and merciful Allah be praised, for ever, eternally. And thus is all the responsibility mine. And again Allah be praised. It is my conviction that it will save the mankind from the atomic doom.

GABRIEL

GABRIEL'S EXTINGUISHING THE ATOMIC HELL SERIES

VOLUME -II

ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACE A CURSE

Contents

Chapter-I

The case of atomic energy discussed in detail. (1) General discussion of the atomic-energy-for-peace. (2) The present state of our knowledge of radiations in reference to Radiobiology. (3) Established verities of the subject of radiations. (4) Limits of man's control over radiations.

Chapter-II

The age of Full-fledged atomic-energy-for-peace, the age of untouchables. (A) Untouchability to be a universal vogue of the age of full-fledged atomic energy. (B) Al-Samari the touch (me) not.

Chapter-III

The terrific warning of Moses to the people of Israel involves the eternal Human race in this Modern age.

FOREWORD

This world today does not only stand helplessly obliged to adopt the atomic-energy-for-peace in order to carry on the progress programme, but unfortunately the world at large is completely ignorant of the horrific effects and the dreadful consequences of the atomic-energy-for-peace. Few in this world know the reality, while the pressure of the circumstances is immense. The world is entangled in the modern economico-industrial set up crying for the necessities of the life. Both the scientist and statesman are forced to provide the material needs and necessities of their communities, and no doubt to speak against the atomic energy is something very unpleasant. Yet the truth has to be told and the reality has to be exposed. The facilities of atomic energy and the pressure of the present necessities have to be weighed against the consequences which are certainly terrific. No doubt there is none at present to speak bluntly against the atomic-energy-for-peace, and most of the people still think the use of atomic-energy-for-peaceful purposes as a possibility, but a mankind which does not have a single person in the world to voice the reality, such a mankind forfeits the privilege of peace, prosperity and existence. Therefore, come what may, allow me to expose the reality and voice the truth in the form of a warning that perhaps this mankind may yet live and even attain to real peace and real prosperity.

There is nothing of a whimsical nature in my writings. Rather the facts of science and logic speak. He who has read the other volume, namely, "The Quran Predicts, Characterizes and averts the atomic hell", will find no difficulties in judging the contents of this volume, despite all the bitterness existing therein, for howsoever bitter may these facts be, yet they are never more bitter than to be broiled in the flames of the fire of atomic bombs, and suffer from the painful cancers in chimerical forms in a world of suffering and misery rightly to be called by the name of atomic hell.

GABRIEL

THE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure (1)	Cancer-ridden hand of a scientist.	93
Figure (2)	Caution-radioactivity.	96
Figure (3)	Danger-Hot-radioactive material within.	97
Figure (4)	Remote control of drug store.	100
Figure (5)	The Atomic Cocktail.	101
Figure (6)	Fido, the radioactivity detector.	102
Figure (7)	The Radiation proof dress.	103
Figure (8)	A ghostly radiation-proof dress.	105

CHAPTER-I

THE CASE OF ATOMIC-ENERGY-FOR-PEACE, DISCUSSED IN DETAIL

(1) GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE ATOMIC-ENERGY- FOR- PEACE

"These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects; love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide, in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord: In palaces, treason; and the bond cracked twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against father: the King falls from bias of nature; there is father against child. We have seen the best of our time; machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow as disquitely to our graves".

(Gloucester in Shakespeare's "King Lear")

"Unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolution of ancient amities; divisions in State, menaces and maledictions against King and nobles; needless differences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what".

(Edmund in Shakespeare's "King Lear")

But who will describe the afflictions of a cancer-ridden, radiation-sick and most miserable mankind of chimeras in the age of atomic energy. The number and the degree of miseries therein would simply leave every Shakespeare dumb struck with astonishment.

"WOE TO EVERY BACKBITER, DEFAMER, WHO AMASSETH WEALTH (OF THIS WORLD) AND ARRANGETH (IT AGAINST THE FUTURE). HE THINKETH SURELY THAT HIS WEALTH SHALL RENDER HIM IMMORTAL. NAY, FOR, VERILY HE SHALL BE CAST INTO ALHOTAMA. AND WHAT SHALL TEACH THEE WHAT AL-HOTAMA IS? IT IS ALLAH'S KINDLED FIRE. WHICH RISES UNTO THE HEARTS. IT IS (A FIRE) CLOSED IN ON THEM IN OUTSTRETCHED COLUMNS".

(QURAN CHAPTER-104-AL-HOMAZA)

"I have yet many things to say unto you, but, ye cannot bear them now, Howbeit, when he, the spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak and he will show you things to come".

(The Bible-St. John XVI-12-13)

Sir James Jeans complained:-

�A hundred years ago, when scientists were trying to interpret the world mechanically, no wise man came forward to assure them that the mechanical view was bound to prove a misfit in the end...................that the phenomenal universe would never make sense until it was projected on to a screen of pure mathematics: had they brought forward a convincing argument to this effect, science might have been saved much fruitless labour. If the philosopher now says "what you have found is nothing new; I could have told you that it must be so all the time, the scientist may reasonably inquire ....why then you did not tell us so, when we should have found the information of real value".

(The Mysterious Universe -1930, page 117)

The complaint of Sir James Jeans might be justifiable from the scientist's point of view, but alas. What human mind, howsoever, great could have advanced a convincing argument in so very complex a matter. If, however, it be supposed for a moment that some philosopher had brought forth a very convincing argument in this respect, is it essential that the scientists would have accepted any argument without a substantial scientific proof thereof. But now that the Holy Quran has brought forth the most convincing proof in the nick of time, and indeed a proof based not on mere philosophy but also based on the hard and fast facts of pure science in a most convincing manner, will then the scientists readily take up the advice that happens to be in the present circumstances as the only ray of hope, the only line of guidance, and the only way to save this mankind from sure destruction. How grievously the loss of the death of a scientist of the caliber of sir James Jeans could be felt at present, and how earnestly it could have been wished that Sir James Jeans were alive today, that this warning of the Quran could have been presented to his view. It is, he, indeed that could have been expected to appreciate the miracle of the Quran and take the advice to his heart. Yet there is still no dearth of good scientists in the world and many of them shall be found capable enough and just enough to weigh, judge and realize the true worth of the warning of the Quran and take it to their heart and act accordingly that perhaps this world may yet be saved from the greatest disaster and the worst doom that no power on earth can avert from the mankind, and there is no other way out of this difficulty except by following the advice of the prophecy of Quran about he atomic hell earnestly, sincerely and practically to the letter and forth-with. Let the scientists read the following warning of the Quran and think over it in the light of the explanations given in this work under study:-

(QURAN CHAPTER-104-AL-HOMAZA)

The scientist is expected to subject the most crucial topic of all times, namely that of the atomic-energy-for-peace to a cool deliberate view, and to lavish on this most critical of all matters the care which is due to it, leaving out of his mind every other consideration except that of the safety of the mankind. The Quran has now left no occasion for the scientist to complain that no convincing argument was brought forward to warn against the hazards of the atomic energy, or to reveal its true nature. Let every consideration of the economic necessity be cast aside while considering the case of the atomic energy, and let the matter be judged from purely the scientific point of view. Let not this mankind be caused to drink poison simply because this kind of poison contains some exceptional nourishing quality besides.

By some, the objection might be raised perhaps not without some apparent reason, that why this warning of the Quran was not disclosed before mankind had entered the nuclear field, and that it is only after the actual explosion of the atomic bomb that some one has been prompted to raise the hue and cry, at first glance at least the objection may appear to carry some weight, but only before our treatment of the subject in this work has been duly subjected to the study. There cannot be a dispute about the fact that the prophecy has existed in the Quran as it is, since the revelation fourteen centuries ago. Further, if the treatment of the subject has been found convincing, the objection remains only that the prophecy has not been disclosed at a time well in advance and before the entry of the scientists into the nuclear field or even before that. The objection thus is restricted to the interpreters of the Quran for not disclosing the purport of the prophecy and not portraying Al-Hotama in the light of its description by the Quran, and not anticipating the atomic hell within this very world.

But are the interpreters of the Quran to be blamed for it? Perhaps not. No one could be blamed for it. The subject of the atomic energy and the atomic bomb has been such as did allow little anticipation. It is to be wondered whether any of the atomists such as Einstein, Chadwick, Rutherford, Fermi, and indeed all the great atomists that were engaged in the discovery of the atomic energy or the construction of the atomic bomb, could have been able at any stage of the development of the subject before the actual explosion of the atomic bomb to realize the real purport of the prophecy in connection with the atomic energy and the atomic bomb due to the exceeding ambiguousness and the haphazard nature of the curse of development, and the extreme minuteness and intricacy of the subject. The exact realization of the purport of the prophecy could only be had in the presence of the site of the atomic bomb explosion. Not even that, still clearer realization of the purport could only come after the explosion of the hydrogen bomb for the appearance of the fact of the global fallout, nay, not even that, for, the realization of the true purport of the prophecy will never cease to assume further clarity. The endless advancement of the object will endlessly provide the facts that will endless keep imparting further clarity to the subject of the prophecy. All the atomists who had a share in discovery and the development of the atomic energy were presumably one and all ignorant of this prophecy of the Quran, and whether their ignorance in this particular is a factor that deserves lamentation or not, is a matter of conjecture only. If lamentable, we are not certain of the extent of lamentation. we say this because the particular time in which these atomists existed and made their exertions in the field of nuclear science, the three evils responsible for the emergence of the atomic bomb had assumed such proportions as might have easily blinded the sight of the atomists rendering them unable to discern the real purport of the prophecy. Such spiritual mysteries could only be revealed to such minds as are clear of the smoke of the worldly greed. There exists a lower strata in the Muslim society that might astonish you by their assertion that the Europeans have learned how to make the atomic bomb from the Quran itself. Leaving aside the question of the descriptive part of the prophecy viz., the description of Al-Hotama, the part containing the causes that were responsible for the emergence of Al-Hotama had been crystal clear from the very outset. The evidence of these causes could have annulled the possibility of the emergence of the atomic hell without in any way obliging this mankind to bother about the descriptive part containing the description of Al-Hotama. Thus the nature of the Al-Hotama would have remained for ever secret. There is still a chance, however, for this mankind to avail the warning of the Quran and be saved. The margin, though, is narrow and the loss done by the fire of atomic hell irreparable and irreversible, once done for ever done.

My labour in this topic has only been to sow wonder and reap lamentation at the unscientific and inconstant behaviours of the scientist concerning the atomic-energy-for-peace. All the information to be found herein regarding the atomic energy belongs to the scientist himself. Mine effort is confined only to the arrangement of the material and the presentation of the facts thereof, and drawing the inferences therefrom, and to prove that the atomic-energy-for-peace is a misnomer, a contradiction in terms and a curse despite the reticence or the recommendation of the scientist. In the matter of atomic energy the atomic energy appears from the established facts to throw this world eventually into a dark boiling sea of misery, with every possibility of plunging this world into a catastrophic atomic war even before the atomic-energy-for-peace has ultimately manifested its ill-effects and has covered this world with invisible rain of burning radiations, for the atomic energy is a single root from which both the branches, that of the atomic energy-fore-peace and for war spring simultaneously; and to cut one of these branches and leave the other might not be possible except by ostriching. To rule out the danger of atomic war in the presence of atomic-energy-for-peace seems a proposition which hovers on the brink of improbability. The prevailing circumstances in this respect due to the confusion and ignorance of mankind regarding the subject of atomic energy, and due indeed to the extreme necessity of energy are forbidding, but conscience would not allow reticence in this gravest of all matters. A world falling into a covered ditch of fire is a scene fearful enough to expel every consideration from man's mind and cause a try of terror to be emitted at so dreadful a spectacle. A cry howsoever feeble, howsoever faint, amidst a raging storm, yet the cry has to be emitted. It is instinctly emitted and would admit no curbs.

A very little margin is now left before mankind to fell into this hideous ditch. Once fallen there is no way out of it. It is simply abysmal. By the time the generality of mankind have gained the necessary knowledge of the subject of atomic energy, or the effects of atomic radiation have begun to appear, the die shall have been cast and the destinies spun eternally. That day the scientist shall be the most despised, most contemptible and most hated creature on earth, regarded as the worst enemy of humanity by humanity, and a character far worse than simply that of one in league with devil which once in the course of history he was generally called. His past services will by then been drowned in general misery. He may well be reminded that his attitudes regard as the atomic-energy-for-peace, if he recommends it, is at present most unscientific. His own established facts in this respect negate his attitude, and his hopes in future protective discoveries in the field of atomic energy are most illusive and may not be materialized either at all or in time. To push over therefore this mankind in the atomic hell in the hope of one day finding protection against the radiations, and cure for radiation sickness is just like causing someone to drink deadly portion in the hope of discovering someday some effective antidote. There could not be a wrong greater ever done to mankind .Who more than the scientist himself knows the tricky, sub-atomic and beyond man's reach, nature of the subject of atomic energy. What expectations then he has in this respect in near future. It is the most friendly, most timely and most sincere counsel to those scientists who today counsel that the adoption of atomic-energy-for-peace in the present state of the subject is safe. If the scientists shun the possibility of one day being called the ugly monsters who dragged the world into the atomic hell, and being sought as the cruel murderers not only of mankind but all life on earth by the misery-ridden mankind in the atomic age, then let them pause and ponder over the problem. And if they find a shred of truth in our warning then let them not grudge condescension to a suppliant in the name of humanity. If, however, they will defy the warning, then men have in the past defied the warnings and have met their doom. There happens to be nothing new in it. But the misfortune is that the doom of whole mankind is mingled with that of the scientist and the fate of this world now is staked on his serenity. The situation demands moral courage and fortitude on the part of him on whose head lies at present the responsibility of the entire world. If he defies this warning he simply defies it by defying the basic tenets and the express dictates of science itself whose mouthpiece and spokesman he happens to be in the world today.

There might, however, be no dearth as yet of men sensible enough in the world to comprehend the meanings of this warning, and spirited enough to raise their voice according to the dictates of their conscience against the ruinous step blindly taken towards the hell, and influential enough to make their voice heard in a world that still has a margin of escape. Reticence at this moment is criminal and devastating. Let men demand universal and complete protection against the inherent radiations of the atomic-energy-for-peace first and allow the adoption thereof only after the satisfactory safeguards have been made available. The venture can certainly and indeed easily be postponed at this stage. Let the fiery monster be unlashed on this world only after the world has been provided with means of protection against its fiery, poisonous breath. This is going to be most scientific. If, however, the atomic-energy-for-peace is adopted before the necessary safeguards are available then no doubt this present generation may or may not experience the ill-effects and may enjoy only the benefits thereof, but gradually the advantages of the atomic energy will be out shadowed and will ultimately be swallowed by the disadvantages, and harms only will remain as the lot of the mankind. Who could object to the atomic energy potential in these days of such necessity but who more than the scientist himself knows the sub-atomic, and delusive nature of atomic energy and the difficulty of finding any protection against or control over the atomic radiations that are inherent in the very nature of the atomic energy. Will not then the scientist pause to think and meditate on the point, the gravest point on which the destiny of the whole future humanity depended. Up on your feet. The time for dilly-dally is already up. And pray look for no exaggerations, mis-statements, alarmist views, or departures from the established facts which you have so very kindly furnished as the result of your most accurate researches. Covering merely the sources of atomic energy is not enough. Men individually all over the world are to be provided with means of protection against vagrant radiations, if mankind's life and health is valued.

ATOMIC ENERGY-FOR-PEACE :-

The term Hotama does not exclusively mean the atomic bomb explosion, but rather implies the atomic hell to embrace in a general manner the entire phenomenon of atomic energy as distinct from the chemical energy. The outstretched columns that are given by the prophecy as one of the characteristic features of the fire of Al-Hotama are present also in the case of radiations as we have in a previous volume shown in sufficient detail.

Remember that we are now going to harbour on a topic on which the existence and welfare of the entire humanity depends. A topic indeed far more grievous and far more painful than any topic that ever was discussed in the whole human history. A topic most misunderstood by the elite and utterly unknown to the generality of mankind in this age of knowledge and science, and one most susceptible of a world-wide controversy of a most disconcerting nature for diverse reasons. A serious controversy in which our adverse view may figure as most dismal in the eyes of a world having great expectations in a particular source of energy. Let this, however, be frankly confessed that but for he inevitable exigency and unavoidable significance of this most excruciating of all the most unpleasant topic, a topic so very dismal, and so very torturous, we certainly could have avoided it without exciting so much as an inaudible whisper of suspicion anywhere, but the stings of conscience are too severe to allow reticence on so grievous a topic and the sense of duty is too impelling to admit of a plea of connivance. Truth must be told and told in its entirety irrespective of consequences. But let the tragedy now be staged. Tragedy is not essentially conflict between good and evil, nay rather the real tragedy happens when good comes in conflict with good. Here is an admonition of a well meaning friend and no ill-will whatsoever is meant. No doubt those who recommend the use of atomic-energy-for-peace do not do so on any motive of dishonesty or selfishness, but rather they honestly believe in what they say. But alas the circumstances of the world these days are too stringent and the devil to dupe this present age is strangely clever and deceitfully mischievous. He will not allow them to see the things as they actually are but will always cause bad things to appear good in their eyes.

The world it seems is blindly determined to adopt the atomic-energy-for-peace. Hazard or not hazard. Judging from the peculiarity of the topic, we have instead of basing our adverse opinion on the authority of the scripture, called in the science itself to condemn it. The science as it will be seen has condemned the topic out-right and without any reservations. It is only the attitude of the scientists in this respect that having been rendered most unscientific has come to make all the great difference. The scientists have in this respect so incredibly missed the particular attitude of science that the revelation of the facts may indeed come as a surprise to many even of the leading scientists all over the world, but facts even more glaring, more formidable in nature are missed by human beings. Death is one such example. Nothing is more certain than death, yet nothing is ever more neglected by men than the remembrance of death. It is a possibility, however, that many a scientist well grounded in science may awake from his stupor regarding the hazards of atomic energy and may wonder, how all these facts which he had actually known, had so long lain dormant in his mind. Ideas may be revived in the minds of the scientists like apparitions, and conscience might smite their previous view about the atomic energy. If, however, on the other hand they remained adamant in their views despite the weight of their own proofs to the contrary, then what could be said except that the hypnotic influence of doom, and the power of the worldly love is so overwhelmingly great, that not even the irrefutable proofs of science have been of any avail to convince them of the truth, or warn them against the incident hazards.

The whole mankind is adamant in their determination to adopt the atomic energy, and not a voice is anywhere to be heard against the venture. Every one is loudest in condemning the atomic bomb, but every one is earnestly desiring the atomic-energy-for-peace. Every diary of the scientist is replete with the hazards of atomic radiations, but few of the scientists say any thing against the atomic-energy-for-peace, as if radiations have been segregated from the atomic energy or have been subjected to a control. Every Government is busily engaged in procuring and installing atomic reactors, as if there were no hazards incident on the adoption of the atomic energy. Imagination of the men of this materialistic age is miserably confined to the material necessities of life and every other consideration has been expelled from a mind completely darkened by the fumes of material pursuits. The whole philosophy of the modern age has been rolled into the stomach, while the heart is abandoned to the desire of the world. The scientist of today seems to have been completely deprived of the faculty of imagination, so much so that he fails completely to picture the radiation situation of a future world with full-fledged atomic energy and recommends the use of the atomic-energy-for-peace as if the radiation situation of the world will for ever remain as it is today when a very few atomic reactors are functioning throughout the world. His philosophical insight seems to have been impaired to an extent that he is completely failing to draw logical inferences and make logical conclusions in the light of the social, mental and economic state of the world circumstances and the particular tendencies of the present mankind. It is painful to observe that the scientist has been rendered a mere mechanical instrument of discovery, a mere tool of scientific invention. The medieval Al-Chemist sought but the transmutation of the baser metals into gold, and the discovery of an elixir that could prolong life to immortality. It pains to think that the modern scientist too would go the some way. The medieval Al-Chemist, however, was a mere obscure individual, while the modern scientist holds a sway over the thought of mankind universally, and is a central figure in the affairs of world.

I am not unaware of the possible charge of the sincere and simple scientist, against me for my combination for the atomic-energy-for-peace, viz., that in my denial of the constructive side of the atomic energy I have been guilty of denying the basic methodology of science, to wit, that I have denied the rule that the discoveries of science could be put to use both for constructive and destructive purpose. Before I attempt to answer this charge, allow me to say in the clearest of terms that on the contrary my charge against the scientist is that he in recommending the use of atomic-energy-for-peace before discovering any means of universal protection and a sure cure for radiation injury is guilty of gross neglect of the most basic and most fundamental rule of the methodology of science. A needy world coerced by pressing needs may rush at the enterprise of adopting the atomic-energy-for-peace unmindful of every associated hazard so much so that it may not only not pay any attention to the warnings of the scientists but may even coerce the unwilling scientists into submission and exact from them their guidance and cooperation, yet the permission of the atomic-energy-for-peace at so dangerously a nascent stage of the subject, and the offer of a hearty cooperation in the field on the part of the scientist is a blemish that no excuse whatsoever could clear in the sight of science.

And now coming to the charge that of the denial of the basic methodology of science by denying the use of atomic-energy-for-peace, let it be observed that the atomic energy whether for war of for peace is a unique exception to the rules of the basic methodology of science. It obeys no rules. It defies man's control. Its preliminary advantages are mere bait and it is the surest means of the ultimate destruction of life on earth. Control is the basic condition of subjecting any scientific discovery to man's service. Not one discovery of science could have been harnessed to man's service without its first leading to the control of man. If fire for instance had perpetually defied the control of man it could never have been subjected to service. The dread of fire entertained by the primitive man and the subsequent success in controlling it is generally cited as the example. But does the case of atomic radiation bear analogy with that of fire? Does no difference exist in this respect, that of control and protection etc., between the chemical and nuclear energy? Surely the two are miles apart in this and in every other original and consequential aspect. And these are no hidden secrets that we now reveal. The failure of the scientist in grasping this formidable truth, and indeed the reason of this whole behaviour in this particular is due merely to his failure in recognizing the fact, that of the exceptional nature of the atomic energy in the realm of science, the fact which has been clouded in his sight due to his hopes in future discoveries of protective and curative measures in the field of radiation, and strangely enough all these hopes are being entertained by the scientist inspite of his knowledge of the clearly discernible probabilities of all such hopes being proved as false and misleading ultimately to irrevocable disaster of mankind. Atomic reactors may indeed be covered materially against radiation as a sure means of protection against radiation, but who will ever think of covering every individual of the entire mankind against the vagrancy of radiations in a future age of all-pervading and universal redundancy of atomic energy, the inevitable source of radiations. And who will guard the whole mankind against large-population-genetic-hazards of atomic radiations, hazards inheritable, cumulative and multiplicative in a world exposed to the insidious effects of ever-vagrant radiations, the most relevant and one of great significance is the question, how far the scientist has hitherto succeeded in procuring the universal protective and curative means and methods in the field of radiations, and how far his hopes in acquiring the same in future can find justification judging form the recognizedly formidable and in all probability insurmountable difficulties and obstacles presented by the subject due to its unusual complexities and the unusual helplessness of man in the field. And is it ever considered by those responsible for the advancement of atomic energy and the safety of the people, that in case some discoveries of protective and curative means were even possibly made at some later stage in the development of atomic energy, might it not be that atomic radiations had by then made such insidious and irreparable damage to mankind that the case was past cure. The damage would thereafter secretly multiply to manifest itself one day to great chagrin and real loss of mankind. This, however, is the greatest possibility, while the case of making the discoveries of any protective or curative means regarding radiations is a dubious probability. Would the permission of the adoption of the atomic-energy-for-peace show some plausibility if such were the conditions?

Optimism is a favourable attitude and is characteristic of any one engaged in a research of any kind. But here is an exception to this rule. Optimism in the case of atomic energy in reference to radiation falls into the category of fatalism. To allow the use of a thing like atomic energy in the hope of someday finding the protective and curative means to ward off the peculiar and particular hazards of atomic energy is to mistake fatalism for optimism in complete forgetfulness of the unique hazards of radiation. What way is there to account for the genetic hazards of radiation. What if all the hopes of the scientists respecting the discovery of protective and curative means prove false, or even if in case they come, they come too late and after the radio-die of mankind has been cast and man's nuclear destiny has been spun. The most reasonable conduct of the scientist in the existing circumstances ought, instead of a vaguely venture-some and dimly hopeful attitude to have been to declare to the world in most explicit and clear-cut manner, "Brethren, we find ourselves in a unique situation and we consider it our sacred duty to declare to you, that we have not been able hitherto to discover either any means of universal protection against atomic radiation, nor have we found as yet any sure cure for radiation injury. Nor yet is any in sight. Judging from the complexity and extreme difficulty of the subject we can give no hopes of any kind. We therefore regret to tell you that in the circumstances such as these we cannot recommend or permit the use of the atomic energy in any way, to wit, neither for war nor even for peace, since the hazards of the venture are great, so much so that the advantages accrued from the enterprise cannot be even imagined to atone for the damages that might surely be incurred by mankind in due course. We will, however, keep up our struggle in the field, and will never flinch from our duty and will grudge no sacrifice, in our utmost endeavour to discover some means of protection against radiation, and some sure cure for radiation injuries, if, however, someone is adamant, and would take up the course of atomic energy inspite of our warnings, we cannot stop him from doing so but let him expect no cooperation from our side". And indeed, there would have been nothing new in a statement of this kind. Einstein and most of the leading scientists of America have had issued similar statements. And were Einstein alive today, I am assured in my mind that he could have most graciously condescend to endorse a statement like the one, that is quoted above. In our treatment of the subject in this chapter, reader will find a sufficient reason for surprise in the fact that all the inevitability of the hazards of atomic radiations has been shown by the scientist himself as the result of his scientific inquiry and experimentation. Discovery after discovery in an established form appears to scientifically establish the ruinous aspects and the disastrous consequences of the atomic energy, and thus saves us from resorting to any maledictory kind of utterances that perhaps might have proved of negligible effect. Ascertained facts and established theories of science in this context to most unambiguously prove our adverse opinion about the atomic energy. Leaving the matter therefore entirely to the scientist himself we will resort to a sad reverie in order to judge the effects of this discussion on mankind in general and more than that on the scientist himself. It is a painful matter to deprive mankind of means of potential energy, but the dangers of such a potential being unproportionally great, the truth has to be told anyhow. To adopt atomic energy is just like sowing fiery winds only, with expectations of reaping fiery whirlwinds. They have sowed atomic energy and they already have reaped atomic bombs. They will sow atomic-energy-for-peace and they will reap complete annihilation of life on earth due to the atomic radiation in a process of slow, systematic decay.

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 in 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 materialist philistines have captured it. They have employed him as a slave and have commanded him to show feats of his unusual strength. No doubt in the end he will show them yet another fact of his formidable strength on his own accord, and will in this bring the whole roof of their amphitheater down upon theirs and upon his own head to their and 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 dam 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 haemorrhages for the future generations with whom they can have no sympathies in the present gratification of present lust. They who may soon develop the symptoms of 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 cannibalists 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 threat in 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 by the presence of the atomic radiations, they may hail the atomic bomb as their saviour and redeemer.

Far graver indeed is yet another aspect, the one that is hidden from the denizens of this materialistic age, viz. that of the eternal life in heaven. It has to be remembered that the very same causes that have produced the atomic bomb in this world are given out by the prophecy of the Quran as responsible for the punishment in Al-Hotama, to mean that they who have been rendered liable to the punishment of atomic bomb in this transient world are also liable to the punishment of Al-Hotama in the next eternal world. O how grievous a consideration and how grievous a punishment. Here in this transient world there is at least some consolation in the 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. Whatever 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 enthusiastic industrialist and indeed all the craving mankind will be sobered at the first glimpse of that terror which is atom bomb. 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 removed, 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 on 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 recessive 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 kwon that nothing would 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. The example of the scientists who base their permission of the atomic-energy-for-peace on their hope in finding someday 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 than 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 scientists we then have to believe? His frightful descriptions of the hazards of the atomic radiations and his confessions of human helplessness against the effects of radiations or his recommendations of atomic energy based on his assurances of the innocuity of atomic energy-for-peace. Does this labeling of atomic energy with peace anyway change its inherent nature, or neutralizes in any way its noxious effects. Our surmise is that the atomic energy and peace are contradiction in terms. Is then this our surmise wrong, misjudged, exaggerated?

The delusions of the politician and the industrialists 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 swallow up the preliminary advantages. The invisible bane of radiations will gradually impair the health of the general public to the degree that not 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 one and all turn bankrupt in the real sense of the word. On 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 generation 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 two 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 indefinite existence on earth.

Any amount of radiation and any dose rate is 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 fool-proof, 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 neighbouring district with radiations playing a havoc with the health and life of the unprotected people in 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 impending hazards of radiation. Yet neither the occasional leakage or the possibility of the explosion of the reactor could anyway be avoided, nor every single member of mankind at large could be expected to be constantly wrapped up in 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 in a closed radiation-proof room, for, who knows when and where the lurking radiations 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. This, however, being an impossibility, not the embarrassing dress but the 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 offers combat wearing a broken helmet with numerous holes, and carrying smithereens of a shield as a symbol of heraldry, and wearing no armour not even a shirt. This is not merely a picturesque piece of a rhetoric portrayal but this actually is the representative situation of human defence 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 defence against the exploded reactor, while the absence of an armour, even a shirt is the emblematic representation of the defencelessness of the individual bodies of mankind at large against radiation.

No humanly great sagacity is required to discover the fault of the understanding of even the most intelligent among the votaries of the atomic energy. The same may with much plausibility be said of those among the scientists who are not hesitant 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. Yet 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 inseparable miseries of our future generations, our own blood ought not to be discarded, for even though we may pass our life-span in this world without any fear of retribution, we at least must remember our inevitable liability to 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 generations will stand face to face to answer for our behaviour in respect to our descendants, and in case found guilty of great wrong to our own posterity we certainly would well deserve the severest punishment, besides the extreme sorrow of our own heart. The final judgment is a logical certainty, and there is no real joy in escaping the punishment in this transient life.

It indeed is erroneous to judge of the harms of radiation in the present perspective of the world as regards the situation of the atomic energy. What after all is the amount of the atomic energy today. A few brand new reactors, carefully designed and assiduously built are at the most functioning in the whole world today. They are at present at least very well managed and diligently supervised. The problem of radiations at present therefore is quite naturally negligible. Yet even at this most primitive stage of the atomic energy all is not well. There is to be heard a perpetual and distressing out-cry against the ever-increasing and embracing nuisance of the radio-active residue from the reactors. Bury it in the ground, throw it in the river or cast it in the sea, its pernicious effects can in no way be checked, inspite of every possible precaution its noxious issue of Radio-activity could not have been eliminated. So inexorably relentless is this element of radio-activity that no precautions, nor even the most bitter and most uproarious protests of its miserable victims have been of any avail in melting its callous heart. Inspite of this meagre and negligible existence of the source of atomic energy in the world at present, clear manifestations of its presence among the mankind even now are unmistakably noticeable so much so that could constitute a real basis for alarm to any eye endowed with some sagacity, and could only be overlooked by an eye whose sight has been blurred by the dizzying tyranny of the killing necessities of the modern life. The increase in the incident of cancer, the appearance of abnormal births, and disturbing genetic trouble doubtlessly attributable to the presence of the sources of atomic energy is not only noticeable but has attracted the attention of the scientist community and has been to them a cause of a grave concern.

But imagine a future world of full fledged and all pervading atomic energy with thousands of large, medium and small sized reactors, stationary as well as portable, and processing plants functioning over the entire earth. The world of atomic energy will be a world in which power-houses, factories, plants, hospitals, sea ships, submarines, aeroplanes, railway engines, motor-buses, private cars and a hundred other things will have their independent reactors fraught with all the hazards of leaking and exploding. Now close your eyes and bring all that imagination that has been left by the pecuniary necessities of this age into play and see this earth instantly turned into a starry heaven in the pitch dark night of a desert. The reactors of power-houses, factories plants, hospitals, and other fixed installations scintillating like the fixed stars and shooting up beams of greenish, yellowish and multicolored rays of radiation interspersed with phosphorescent beams of hundreds of thousands of running, flying and sailing reactors of vehicles, aeroplanes and seaships, every now and then some or the other reactor exploding like a shooting star and spreading in the vicinity a flood of radiations like the milky way. It is not at all difficult for any scientist to imagine the state of the world in the atomic energy age, or the extent to which mankind will be exposed to the hazards of radiation. Nor it is impossible for him to realize the extent of misery to which mankind in general will be subjected in that age. Every sphere of human activity will be subjected to the influence of atomic radiation and every body will incur the risk of exposure to the harmful effects thereof. The sources of radiation will be so over redundant and wide-spread, and the occasions of leakage and explosion will be so frequent and indeed so close that escape will be well nigh impossible for anyone anywhere. The reactors of cars leaking and exploding, the reactors of aeroplanes leaking and exploding, the reactors of ships, factories, powerhouses and submarines leaking and exploding. Where is the possibility of escape? And the crux of the matter is that atomic radiations are not detectable by human sense. They are invisible and have no smell. They have no taste and no touch. Only in case of high doses the effects of radiation may be felt in the form of radiation sickness. Smaller doses which, although they can produce gene mutations produce no signs of radiation sickness or cancer. The victim therefore remains ignorant to the last. Nor the gene mutations could even be detected by the medical profession. Let men try to know what it means to them till it is too late.

Agriculture, industry, medicine, electricity, defence, in short every department will be dominated by influence of radiation. Atomic energy will be there to irradiate crops and seeds in order to improve the quality and increase the quantity thereof. In the factories it will be there to supply power. It will be in hospitals to supply radiations or treating diseases like cancer, leukemia and tumours, the diseases which will increase in proportion to the increase in the atomic energy. It will be there in power-houses to generate electricity. It has already found its way into F.B.I and police force to render help in detecting crime. Jewelers to have a use for it. They will tag their valuable gems with radio-isotopes to ensure identification in case of theft. Judge therefore the extent of the prevalence of atomic radiations in the world.

The history of the prevalence of atomic energy however, does not end with it. Indeed once mankind has embarked upon the atomic age, the atomic energy will become a house-hold affair just as the chemical energy is at present. Radio-isotopes will be there to show the farmers how to get greater returns from their billions of dollars spent on fertilizers. Tagged atoms will show the amount and the kind of fertilizer best suited to each crop. Radio-activity will help them to find better strains of plants by irradiating the seeds, and so will it help them in finding disease-resistant seed. Though possibly time only could prove whether irradiated seeds and crops were to produce any deleterious effects on the future generations and it is too early to say anything about this very dangerous aspect at present inspite of the sureties of the scientists in this respect. Some scientists are now dreaming of even making food directly from Carbon Dioxide, water and energy, and hope to learn the secret of photosynthesis by the use of Radioisotopes as tagged atoms. Whether such a dream as this will ever possibly be realized or not, is not yet known. It, however, very clearly affords a glimpse of the extent of the prevalence that the atomic energy may assume both within the minds and in the practical field in the age of the atomic energy. Such indeed were the fantasies of those pioneer operators of X-ray machines who had to pay dearly with their lives, and such indeed may be the end of those scientific fanatics who to dream of making food directly from Carbon Dioxide etc. Nothing, however, of this kind is impossible but what is overlooked by such dreamers is the factor of radio-activity and divers other factors that are at work simultaneously in the opposite direction.

Poultry and animal fatters will be tested by Radio-activity. The drug will be fed to the animals to slow down their thyroid glands and make them grow faster and fatter with the same amount of food. Tagged atoms have shown that the meat and chickens thus produced will be quite harmless according to the present-day scientific estimates. The real results will, however, appear after the lapse of a long time, presumably in some future generations. Seeds, fruits, eggs and vegetables and scores of other such like things may no doubt be improved for the present time but unfortunately the effects of radiations are equally of long-term and may only appear after decades even centuries, and the treatment of these things with radiation may prove as hazardous as is the case of the gene mutations.

Weather-men will use atomic energy for more accurate forecasts. Cheap heat from atoms will replace the smudge pots now used to protect oranges, lemon, and other fruits from unseasoned frosts. Drug producing plants will be grown in atomic green-houses, and radio-active forms of drugs will be developed. Some people dream, that one day atomic energy might be used to control the weather of the world. They also hope for cheap atomic power which might be used to produce rain when and where needed. They also talk of heating ocean currents that flow near land and affect the climate of lager areas. It might be presumed that the reader has not by now relapsed into a dream and is on the contrary wide awake with wonder at such fancies of though. There can indeed be no objection to such thoughts as controlling he weather, heating the seas, or causing rains when and where needed by the agency of atomic energy. Beneficial schemes and good intentions indeed, but the surprise only is excited when it is remembered that all such hopes are being entertained by those functions who have not been hitherto able to discover a single means of universal protection of human kind against the same radiation which they intend to harness in achieving all these fantastic schemes. Nor even as yet they have been able to discover a single sure cure for the injuries produced by the radiations. Judging from the present situation of the affair of radiation not even the legendary opium eater could have been expected to see such dreams or utter such hopes. The difficulty with these people is that in the heat of their optimism they completely discard the other side of the picture. They are like a hunter who is lying with his gun aimed at the prey while is yet ignorant of the adder which is creeping from behind to bite his heel. They only imagine the benefits of atomic energy but they forget its hazards including its associated hazards of atomic warfare that may throw all the world along with their fallacies pell-mells. So universal a use of atomic energy and the consequential super-abundance of atomic radiations will have ill-effects that ought not to be disregarded. Inebriation therefore ought not to be allowed to have the complete sway over one's mind and at least some window of light be kept open even in the extremities of intoxication.

Tagged atoms, the Radio-isotopes which can perform many amazing tasks will move into the production lines of numerous industries. The old tedious methods for testing engine wear and tear will be replaced by much simpler and quicker method with radio-active piston rings. Radio-active or tagged atoms will show manufacturers how tyres wear. Radio-isotopes will be used to measure wear on many parts of machines. They will be time-saving and money-saving devices. Thickness of materials such as a rubber, paper, plastics, thin metal foils and textiles will be measured by isotopes. Judging from the nature and habit of mankind it is not difficult to see how far men will go into the use of atomic energy and tagged atoms, particularly if time-saving and money-making is there. But alas, these time-savers and money-makers will remain ignorant of the nefarious, dreadful, insidious effects of the radiation appliances they used, for generations to come. They developed gene mutations.

Radio-isotopes will play watch dog in still other ways. Flaws in metal machine parts can be readily found by certain radio-isotopes. For long the X-ray and Radium have been used to look through heavy metals. Radio-isotopes are used as an inspection tool for locating damaged parts and poor electrical connections in air frames for many aircraft. Radio-isotopes can protect machine operators, too. For example the hands of a punch press operator can be protected with a radio-active wrist band. If he should fail to pull his hand away in time, the machinery could be stopped automatically by the radiation. Packages can also be inspected by radio-isotopes. Packages are inspected by radio-isotopes as they pass down the production line. If a package is not properly filled, more rays pass between the isotopes and the counter on the opposite side of the package. A warning light may glow, or a machine may be adjusted to knock out a faulty package. Radio-activity can measure the height of molten metal in foundry furnaces, and can also measure the amount of water packed as snow on mountain peaks. Tagged atoms can be used to trace water-leak in under-ground pipes. Tagged atoms added to the water which goes into the pipe will leak out along with the ordinary water. The course of the pipe could be followed with an instrument that detects radio-activity.

Where the clicks are more frequent, a hole could be dug straight down to the leak.

In a pipeline in which a variety of materials such as diesel oil, gasoline and bunker oil flow along, radio-active atoms announce the beginning of different materials and save un-necessary draining. In soap tests in which bacteria are made radio-active, radio-isotopes act like a magic eye. To check the ability of various soaps and detergents to wash clothes, radio-active bacteria are placed on cloths and each cloth, is washed with a different soap. The bacteria remaining on each one are measured to learn how each soap cleans. Bacteria cannot be seen, for they are much too small to be seen without the help of a microscope. But if Bacteria are radio-isotopes, they become radio-active and can be easily measured with a Geiger Counter. Radio-isotopes enable the scientists to examine water under the soil, to determine its age and the amount which comes from rainfall. Samples of soil can also be studied by using cobalt 60 at the location where engineering work is being done. With this new method samples have not to be taken away to a laboratory as they were in the past. Around the world tagged atoms work for men. They check the flow of under-ground streams through the Alpse. In France they check the air tightness of underground telephone cables and help in work on under-sea cable between France and North Africa.

Radio-isotopes are a new tool for industry. Many of their uses are still to be determined, but industry is already one of the best customers for the Radio-isotopes. There is hardly a manufacturer who cannot use them to find faster, simpler, more accurate answers to some problems. A number of rapidly growing companies prepare and process Radio-isotopes and manufacture instruments for their use. Several types of small reactors can be purchased by universities or industrial research groups. Radio-isotopes will bring about tremendous change in near future, but the use of tagged atoms will always be accompanied by the many problems of putting radiation to work without harming the people who use them. And this indeed is the crux of the problem, the Scientists do indeed apprehend the dangers of the atomic radiations, but they always treat the matter in a manner as though the course of the progress of the atomic energy and the struggle for finding the means of protection against it will run parallel to each other. And here is the mistake that will end in the ruin. Whether they shall ever achieve this object or not is doubtful but radiation will continue to underline the health of the people to their complete extinction.

The use of the tagged atoms is not confined to land only. Fishermen who gather Oysters from a river-bed cannot see chemicals in the river which might pollute the Oysters. Tagged atoms can trace the chemicals from a near by plant even if they are added in tiny amounts to chemical wastes dumped into the river. By testing water in the oyster beds for radio-activity, scientists can detect even a few parts of chemical waste per billion parts of water.

Experiments with radio-isotopes test the wearing qualities of paint and flour wax, sterilized blood plasma, test the absorbing qualities of cold creams, and investigate hundreds of potential uses. Each month thousands of Radio-isotopes work in the factories giving off radiations that help to make better products at lower costs. And they have just begun to work as servants of industry. This factor of "better product at lower costs" is in fact the main factor that counteracts the hazards of radiations.

Electricity from atoms is no longer a secret. Steam can easily be produced by reactors and can spin the blades of a steam turbine. Turbine turns a generator which produces electricity. There is no magic formula involved therein. Steam has done this work for hundreds of years. American submarines Nautilus and Sea-Wolf, fitted with atomic reactors are already churning sea waters. To build atom-propelled ship is no longer a difficult matter. Aircraft reactor projects are already in progress. The possibility of atomic locomotive is being at present studied in America.

Some people dream of atomic power plants springing up to supply cheap power tomorrow. But the conservative opinion of the knowledgeable is affected by the thought of the problems created by the factor of radio-activity, and the intense heat produced by reactors. At present at least the consideration of this injurious factor of radio-activity appears as a considerable factor in the mind of the scientist, and the credit of such a consideration cannot be denied to him. It is his wish that the project of atomic energy should be allowed to progress gradually and systematically, stage by stage, clearing the obstacles and providing sure safeguards against radiation as far as possible, but what he is obliged to overlook in this matter is firstly the difficulty of the proposition, and secondly that domineering factor namely, the devastating force of necessity that will in time overrule every consideration and the scientist will find himself forcibly carried along the coarse in complete contrariety to the basic dictates and fundamental statues of science. If the basic factor that of unrestricted ambition for more is not controlled, the scientist will find himself in a world that will look like a nest of infuriated radio-active hornests and wasps rather than an abode of human beings peacefully engaged in a peaceful struggle for the procurement of indispensable necessity of life. Who will be able to resist the temptation of the energy potential of atomic energy in a power-hungry generation, and who will care for the hazards when it is known that merely fifteen pounds of Uranium produce electricity to be produced by forty thousand pounds of coal. It is quite obvious thus that the scientist today stands in a most pathetically critical situation, while indeed the fate of mankind hangs on his decision. Here it is the real trial of his integrity. Sincerity he does not lack. Nor his knowledge of the subject or his understanding of the affairs is in any way less than sufficient. Fortitude he has to assume.

Apparently, all the long catalogue of the uses to which the atomic energy can be put and has actually been put on a smaller scale, and yet it is not all, for there are hundreds of other uses to which it can be put, must serve as an eye-opener to anyone. It cannot indeed be deemed as a revelation to the scientist, if he is told that in such extreme prevalence of atomic energy and radio-activity the world situation could best be likened to a reactor in the process of explosion. And that the scientist will find himself quite helpless in such a situation is a fact which even today is being experienced by the scientists of America, who having sensed the danger are endeavouring to the utmost of their ability to induce their country-men to subject atomic energy to limitations, where a section is advocating unrestricted development of atomic energy with a view to combating any probable breakdown of oil supply. The effort of the scientists, however, and quite naturally, in restricting the atomic energy is meeting with little success. And herein it is a real lesson to the scientist community. Let them beware of the tragic fact, since the blame ultimately will rest upon their heads. No systematic progress of the atomic energy will be allowed and the scientist will find himself not better than a mere instrument and a mere slave to the desires of those who have the power and resources but who are quite ignorant of both the subject of atomic energy and its consequences.

Of the main shortcomings attributable to the present day scientist, is his failure to recognize the methodological exception of atomic energy to the general rule of science, viz., that the discoveries of science could be put to use both for construction and destruction, in spite of his requisite knowledge of the subject. The atomic energy could be singled out in this respect as exception due to the incompleteness and imperfectness of protection against its radiations, and insufficiency of control on them, besides the overwhelmingly great proportion of its harms against the advantages that could be derived from it. The scientist seems to have missed this point of exception altogether due partly to the existence of the partial protection from the radiations achievable through completely materially covering the sources of atomic energy, and due partly to his hopes in finding some day some means of complete, perfect, universal protection against the atomic radiations, and also some sure cure for the radiation injury. There is not a fact nor a factor to be found in nuclear science, particularly the subject of nuclear radiations that fails to confirm this point of exception of the atomic energy to the general rule of the methodology of science, and the scientist is the person who can recognize it in the twinkling of an eye. If Peter Alexander can write, " The dangers from radiation are in many respects quite different from those encountered from other injuries or toxic agents, and not even now do we know enough about them to lay down reliable and realistic safety limit is", Peter Alexander should have no difficulty in recognizing the truth that the atomic energy is an exception to the rule of methodology of science and hence not the encounter but the avoidance is the preferable rule to be followed in this respect against all the overwhelming temptation of the exceptional energy potential.

Another of the significant short-comings of the scientist regarding the atomic energy and its radiation could be located in his perceptible indifference to the picture of a future world overflowing with atomic energy, and his contendness with the present day situation of the scanty atomic energy in the world. His recommendation of the atomic energy-for-peace could easily be seen to have been based on the present position of the world as regards atomic energy. His inner design could be detected as one of a gradual and systematic progress in the field of atomic energy, well under control and with perfect regard to available protective measures that are to be steadily and systematically improved through constant research to the ultimate, complete perfection. Such a notion might be wrong and in fact impracticable as far as the topic of atomic energy is concerned. Again, scientist too like every one else in the world is completely in the dark about the course of the future development of the atomic energy in the world. The subject of atomic energy is new, quaint, complex, and generations are required to pass in order to provide sure experimental data concerning the effects of radiations on human race, the data on which the future policies are to be based. Herein too the exception of the atomic energy shows itself. For, once the generation to provide the experimental data has appeared, the chance of making corrections in the course will have passed with the past generation. Mankind will by then have been doomed without any hope. It is quite easy to understand and is not understood, that in the case of atomic radiation, the protection is not to be discovered along the course of progress, but rather first the universal protection is to be discovered, and then only the atomic energy is to be adopted, for the genetic effects of radiation move secretly in the form of recessive genes through generations till at last in some future generation they manifest themselves in the form of abnormal birth by then irreparable damage has been done, and nothing could be of any avail.

Extensive research, however, is being carried out on millions of guinea pigs in the field of radiation, and the results are alarming, though not so alarming as to convince the optimistic scientist of the exact situation of the hazards involved therein. The scientists will not believe in the truth until hey have seen with their own eyes the whole of the human race involved in the hazards of the atomic radiations, or at least such proportions of mankind as may plausibly be termed as large populations, for, the view of the scientists happens to be that unless large populations of mankind are involved in genetic hazards of radiation, the situation may not be regarded as serious, and may be deemed as tolerable. Individuals or small populations may in this respect be disregarded, they think. This they say without knowing in any way these secret gene situation of mankind. They simply ignore this fact. Herein then the scientist is true to the basic methodology of science. Science doesn't believe in anything until some substantial proof of that thing is there. So also the scientist cannot believe in the efficacy of the radiation effects until he finds large populations of mankind involved in radiation hazards. But surprisingly, the scientist discards the dictates of science when he recommends the adoption of atomic-energy-for-peace without first acquiring the means of protection against radiations and sure care for radiation sickness. On the one hand he would not take it serious unless he would see large populations of human beings rendered as guinea pigs of atomic radiation, forgetting the issue of secret recessive genes of mankind, but on the other hand he would not hesitate to recommend the use of atomic-energy-for-peace prior to discovering means of universal protection against the radiation, or any sure cure for radiation sickness. The attitude of the scientist in the former issue, in not believing the reality of the radiation hazard without seeing large populations involved in mutagenic hazards is disastrous and evasive, while his attitude regarding the latter issue, in recommending the use of atomic-energy-for-peace without first providing protection and cure is simply preposterous and unscientific. The world now has approached so close to the brink of destruction that it is almost criminal on the part of the scientist either to assume reticence or to behave waveringly in the matters of science whose wails now tear through the heavens, for she too is scared of her fast approaching doom. It is time that the scientist awakes from his slumber and rises to the occasion. What after all is the use of that progress which brings a hundred times more misery than the felicity it has provided. Let now the scientist remember the nature of his responsibility towards the distressed mankind and must not grudge sacrifice worthy of his high station. National obligations may be justifiable, but there is a greater obligation to the mankind as a whole. Nations too are of a piece with the mankind in general.

Once the mankind has adopted atomic-energy-for-peace without first having the universal protection of all individuals, the somatic as well as genetic effects of radiation will commence among the people. Genetic effects will begin secretly and without the knowledge either of the scientist or the person involved himself. Where is then the scientist who can detect the recessive gene in a man? And who knows that even today despite the dearth of atomic energy there might be millions amongst this mankind that might be carrying the mutated genes without knowing. Will not then these present recessive genes in some future generation manifest their secret existence in the form of abnormal births? Can then the scientist stop it? Will no radiations in the age of full-fledged atomic energy affect in their vagrancy the unprotected individuals and cause gene mutations? And are not virtually all the people in the world unprotected against radiations? What remedy then and what cure the scientist can suggest at present or what hopes he may have to discover any such means in future?. Is not the genetic damage of radiations irreparable and irreversible, cumulative and multiplicative? Will not the monsters beget monsters like themselves and multiply both the monsters and monstrosities infinitely through marriage of parents bearing different gene mutations? Will not this world ultimately be changed into miserable chimeras? Is there any remedy or any cure? Any precaution or protection? What will you call it then if not a willful murder of mankind to recommend the atomic-energy-for-peace, or more appropriately will you not call it shoving the mankind in to the miserable pit of atomic hell?

Keeping in view the lengthy list of the hazards of the atomic energy, the matter may safely be left to the judgment of a reader with average intelligence. There is little difficulty in realizing the terribleness of the situation, but alas, when the hypnotic influence of a grievous doom has blurred the mind of a people, arguments, warnings and warners will be of no avail, howsoever, strong, whosoever, realistic, howsoever sagacious the argument, the warning or the counsel might be. Only if it had been possible for this present selfish and negligent generation to cast an eye on the wretchedness of a future generation of their own children, a generation of human beings, the dearest descendants of this present generation, groaning under inseparable misery and affliction, wincing under the deadly stings of invisible poisonous radiations, sinking under painful maladies and ugly diseases, and perpetuating their miserable existence in a depressing atmosphere of mutual distrust, overbearing frustration, conjugal discomforts, poor miserable creatures, deprived of parental affection, divested of brotherly love, bereft of fraternity and friendship, burning in a hell of ill-will, hatred and malice, besieged in a gehanna of famines, diseases, epidemics, catastrophes and calamities unprecedented and unheard of in pervious history. Poor wretches, casting a glance of envy on the graves of those dead, and sighing, and saying to themselves, only if our forefathers could see these running ulcers, these painful cancers, and these tormenting tumours on our body. We poor, miserable grand children.

The genetic hazard of radiation is one of the most dreadful of all the numerous hazards thereof. It is due to this hazard that the extinction of human race and all animal life could be expected in the long run, though long after the present generation, the generation which actually incurred the genetic damage, has expired. Radiations cause gene mutations both in male and female. The recessive genes are transmitted to future generations, one after the other. The genes move on secretly till in any one of the generation they manifest their existence in an abnormal birth. This abnormality is inheritable. That is, the monster shall beget monsters. And this abnormality is multiplicative. That is the parents having different gene mutations will produce offsprings with complex abnormalities. Gene mutations are secret and can neither be known to the person himself nor are to be detected by the experts. The genetic damage done by radiation is irreversible and irreparable. It means that the loss once done is forever done and no treatment is possible. And the crux of the matter is that the genetic damage can be done by the radiation at the lowest dose rate. The dose rate which is too low to produce any symptoms of radiation sickness or cancer can all the same cause genetic damage. The process of gene mutation will continue in every generation and ever increasingly, in a cumulative manner.

The present generation may perhaps pass away without showing any signs of genetic damage (though not essentially, for, impotency can be incurred by the present generation as a genetic effect of radiation) and passing secretly the recessive gene to the future generations, any of which may be born as abnormal. The abnormalities may go on multiplying till all the victims would turn into distressed chimeras. It is distressing to imagine human race having turned into innumerable forms of chimeras, ugly, loathsome, sickly and imbecile. Not only the human race, but the whole creation: mammals, beasts, birds, reptiles, even the vegetable world will be subjected to similar destiny. A painful scene of desolation and affording no satisfaction to any one except perhaps to Darwin or a consistent Darwinian who may find some justification for evolution, exclaiming, "Well it was like this that a lower ape was transformed into intelligent man". The legendary chimera, a fabulous creature with lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail, has at last, thanks to radiation, become a substantial reality. Presumably the bars between different species and creatures will be removed and no form or shape or characteristics as we see in this world today shall then be found. But the abnormal reproductions will be deficient mentally and physically, and being unfit to continue life will gradually perish leaving this earth as a barren and desolate planet revolving around the sun. Miserable handicapped, cancer-ridden chimeras, covered all over with ulcers and malignant tumours, and suffering from a dozen distressing physical, mental, nervous, genetic and psychological ailments, the miserable descendants of world-loving generation of human beings shall have long deserted their abode on earth, crying; O death! relieve us from this perpetual misery of the stings of these swarms of flying serpents of Radio-activity. It is to them, those unfortunate victims of radiations, that the truth of my saying, that "Every nucleon shot in the heart of atom in order to generate a scruple of atomic energy in fission is a deadly shaft driven through the heart of humanity, until the hazard of radiation is completely eliminated", shall appear as a veritable truth hidden at present from the eyes of a generation whose heart is puffed up with passion for physical comfort and whose mind is occupied with but one thought that of material utility. It is the unfortunate victims of future ages that will realize the true worth of the atomic energy, and they will know how much this energy has contributed to their peace, the atomic-energy-for-peace as it is now called. They might curse the zeal of those who had sought the atomic reactors with such ungovernable passion, and alas, with good intent.

A formidable fact which in the heat of necessity and in the absence of the practical manifestation of experimental data is ignored and overlooked is cumulative process, rather, the doubly cumulative process in successive generations of recessive genes along with the gradually increasing number of atomic plants in the world. It is a terrible fact which is most tragically ignored. The resulting state due to this double accumulation like the compound interest seems extremely frightful. The present generation will bequeath a number of recessive genes to the next generation. The next generation will not only inherit the genetic load thus bequeathed but will also incur gene mutations itself due to the prevailing radiations, and will further bequeath to the next generation both the loads, inherited as well as incurred. Next generation then will not only inherit the genetic load of two previous generations but will also itself incur further gene mutations and will bequeath to its successor generation three loads and so on so forth the process of compound accumulation will continue infinitely, till a certain generation in future will have genetic region like the colonies of mutilated white ants. The genetic region like the colonies of mutilated white ants. The three factors that of the gradual increase in the existing multitude of atomic plants is also to be simultaneously taken into consideration. Today but a few rectors are in operation all over the world, and therefore constitute no appreciable threat to mankind. But it is not going to be so for ever. With the advent of atomic-energy-for-peace the number of atomic plants will increase speedily and enormously. Soon even the private cars will have their own independent reactors. The flow of radiations then in the world will be like the flow of winds and waters. The rate of gene mutations will thus increase in proportion to the increase in atomic plants. And so will the amount of gene mutations inherited as well self-acquired increase in alarming proportions. The process then will acquire a momentum that could rightly be imagined as frightening. The bodies of human beings will then be changed into hideous hides full of mutated genes. And so also will increase the proportion of abnormal births. Living species then will be metamorphosed into something that will defy recognition. Radiation diseases too will have multiplied in relative proportions. This earth will be more like a sick house than the abode of living creatures. Here then a most solemn question may be put to those who recommend the use of the atomic-energy-for-peace. What shall be the remedy then in the hands of humanity. What shall be the means of putting a check on the state to avoid further aggravation of the conditions. It is all criminal .It is tantamount to the murder of mankind to adopt atomic energy without a protection or cure. To think that protection and cure may be discovered in time along with the progress of atomic energy is a teacherous hope and extreme folly. Today the packets of atomic poison are being delivered to the needy mankind with an indifference to the consequences that looks like he grossest outrage upon humanity without compunction, without sympathy, without consideration.

But let us see the general attitude of the scientists regarding this dreadful hazard that of the genetic effects of radiations. They think that the individual cases of gene recession may not be regarded. The mutagenic hazard of small populations too is tolerable according to them. It is only the involvement of larger populations in genetic hazards that really is alarming in their opinion. Because they say that it is in this last case that the governments may be paralyzed due to the large numbers of sick, and consequently serious disruptions may occur in the general set up of countries. But what they fail to provide is the means or the methods of placing a check on the development of the hazard from lower levels to higher ones. The hazard from the individual level may be developed to small population level, and from small population level to large population level, and nothing absolutely could be done. It does not look very descent. The failure of the scientists in this respect is firstly because no protection can be given to the human beings against the effects of radiations and secondly that the genetic effects of radiations cannot be detected by any means and by any one. And thirdly because no remedy is there for the genetic injury caused by the radiations. Thus the case is analogous to that of a city of wooden buildings set on fire while there happen to be no arrangements of extinguishing the fire. Yet the atomic-energy-for-peace is being recommended. It is something so very difficult to understand. The fire of the genetic hazard will spread through mankind from individuals to small populations and from small populations to large populations and there shall be no remedy, and no means to check the raging fire till the whole mankind is consumed. Could a knowing scientist in this world justify the recommendation of atomic-energy-for-peace with a clear conscience.

The fire in the body of the individual will secretly start in the form of recessive gene. This ember will be transmitted through generations. Every generation will not only inherit this fire in the form of recessive genes but will also augment it through the acquirement of personal recessive genes due to the current effects of the existing radiations. The fire will then spread to the neighbouring houses through marriage. The multiplication of recessive genes further will cause the fire to spread to the various parts of the city. Till at last the whole city that is the whole mankind is on fire. But where is the fire fighting squad? There is simply none. The only possible means of protection against radiation is the material covering of the sources of radiations. This factor may induce some one to consider the city in question as to be built of a fire proof material. But actually it is not so, because there is every possibility of a leakage through these material coverings. There is also the possibility of explosion of the sources of radiations, and the neighbouring populations are unguarded against radiation. This leaking fire constitutes a considerable hazard to the city. The lowest dose rates of radiation are enough to cause the genetic damage. The genetic damage being irreversible, irreparable and cumulative, the danger of spreading the fire in a city that has no fire extinguishing arrangements is substantial. To what then the adoption of atomic-energy-for-peace sans remedy, sans detection, sans protection and sans cure could be likened other than to leaping in the fire secretly without a fire proof dress and without any treatment of burns. The whole situation is before the world stark naked and undisguised. What cause could then be imputed to this blindness other than the blinding influence of a dreadful doom, brought about by three evils.

Mankind ought to have considered itself as fortunate in that the harnessing of atomic energy with its associated radiation hazards came at a time when geneticists were in a position to point out the danger from the doses well bellow those which can be tolerated if only radiation sickness and the dangers of producing cancers are considered. It was proved that even the lowest dose rate of radiation which neither could produce any symptoms of radiation sickness nor cause cancer did produce gene mutations. In a sensible and a fortunate humanity such a discovery would have meant an end of the atomic energy. All activities in the field of atomic energy would have come to an abrupt cessation. Men would have thanked their lucky stars.

Every atomic plant on earth would have been at once burnt, and ground to powder like the legendary golden calf of Israelites and cast into the seas. Every paper that had contained the definition of permissible doses (doses of radiation that produce ill effects only to the extent that is deemed as tolerable), and lethal doses (e.g. LD 50,30 days which means the dose necessary to kill half the animals in 30 days) would have been heaped up outside the offices and set on fire, and congregations of thanks-giving were held throughout. On the other hand, and it is a curious commentary on our times that Muller's paper (and it should be noted that the profound epoch-making discovery of the induction by ionizing radiation is due to Muller in 1927) ----- originally prepared for Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (August 1955) could not be presented and discussed at the Conference. Science (122-813-1955) observed in its editorial (on H.J.Muller and the Geneva Conference), �It is tremendously important at this time that there be free and open discussion of all possible radiation dangers. Only in this way can maximum progress be made in evaluating the dangers and taking necessary steps to reduce or eliminate them. There is no magic formula for arriving at a figure for the so-called permissible dose". Radio-mutagenic effects keep on secretly, insidiously and indefinitely increasing and multiplying. The authorities like Muller have thought that to double the natural mutation rate generation after generation would lead to disaster in a civilized community, and they have advocated protective measures to limit the dose to one quarter of that required to produce the doubling. Others in a more conservative manner have estimated that a doubling of the rate would be detectably deleterious but not disastrous. Inspite of our real gratitude for the scientists who at the risk of their own health and life should take all these pains in order to find out the maximum permissible doses that might be least injurious to the health of mankind, we see all these precautions being advertised like weather forecasts to a mankind that is sailing in a paper boat. How long such precautions will be of any avail to community encompassed by ever-increasing, ever-expanding and ever-overwhelming radiations and subjected to their insidious, inheritable and cumulative genetic effects. There can be no doubt that every precaution, every safe guard every protection will eventually fail and mankind will find itself at the mercy of elements in a process of inevitable destruction. It is obvious that the only check possible on the spread of the mutagenic effects of radiation is the reduction of exposure of man to radiation, and that is what is meant by the permissible dose. Nothing whatsoever could be done after the radio-mutagenic damage has occurred. Is then this a fact? Yes, it indeed is a fact established beyond the least scruple of doubt. Where then is the sense of mankind? It certainly and most tragically has been tainted by the influence of the three evils with the smoke of false hopes of living with atomic energy and yet escaping its ill-effects due perhaps to some future discovery of protective measures and curative means. The most frantic cries of the scientists, the grievous nature of their warnings and the unmistakable gravity of the facts presented by them are all ignored as if this word today were populated with a race of a people dumb, deaf and mute. A warning of a nature more serious and deserving greater attention could hardly have been heard than the warning of the scientist that "the insidious gradualness of the changes within the body due to genetic effects of radiation and the inevitability of radiations' long-term effect make it impossible to wait for actual human experience before delineating the genetic risk. The dangers of radiation to large sections of the population must be anticipated; once they have shown themselves in the population, irretrievable damage has been done". This certainly is a kind of a warning that could cause the hair stand on end or at least excite a shudder. The meanings of this warning have sufficiently been explained in the pervious pages, here we only will pause to mourn the insensibility of the hearers who play the deaf to the warnings of such a nature. We will, however, repeat the meanings of this warning. It plainly means that the gene mutations that are caused by radiation move secretly and multiply in numbers, and that although they are completely hidden from mankind, their appearance as long-term effects is inevitable. Let not the mankind therefore await their appearance among the large populations. As far as the remedy of this malady is concerned, the scientist has nothing to advise more than that the exposure to radiation should be reduced to the minimum and the sources of radiations should be more assiduously guarded. There is nothing that could be done either to check the secret development of the (genetic) effects of radiation or to remedy them after they have made their appearance. It is a dark saying indeed. We look up to the scientist in wonder, dismay and despair, and think if it is the same man who has issued this information and after issuing this information can be seen engaged in designing an atomic reactor. What is the excuse that he can plausibly make, except that he is conducting the research to issue more warnings like this and again busy himself in conducting the research to issue yet more warnings till this mankind is completely destroyed by the radiations to announce the completion of research, researcher and researched. Mankind has not taken the timely warning of geneticists and mankind certainly is therefore doomed.

The scientist is an honest fellow. Honest and sincere. Sincere and sympathetic and deserving the heart-felt gratitude of entire mankind for risking his health and life in his endeavour to render atomic energy safe for utility. His views might be erroneous. His hopes might prove false. Yet his right to gratitude could not be denied him. This case of atomic energy has involved him in a situation most perilous and has thrown on him a responsibility that is heavier than death itself. The consequences of his endeavour in the field of atomic energy might place him in a situation so unpleasant, so irksome, even abominable as may hardly show a precedent in history. He is not all praises for atomic energy. We know. In the heart of hearts he seems to be well aware of the extreme precariousness of the situation. But he is in a fix. He finds himself on the horns of a dilemma. His inner urge to render atomic energy safe for use is irresistible. But more than that he has at present been rendered into a mere servile instrument in the hands of national and international politics. And a mere slave to procure means of gratifying the appetite of mankind. Let humanity therefore help him out of this situation for the sake of his past and present services to mankind in general. How it could be done is the question? That's easy. It could be done by relieving him from the political and industrial compulsion. Let him be made once more a free man to think by his own mind and to see by his own sight. How this could be done is the next question. This too is equally easy. Let the knowledge of atomic energy and the nuclear science be disseminated throughout the world. When the people themselves have gained the knowledge of the subject sufficient to weigh for themselves the pros and the cons they can give their opinion for or against it. When once the opinion of the entire public of the world has been moulded, then their political agencies that at present are forced by the circumstances to adopt and develop atomic energy in compulsory spirit of competition and rivalry will be relieved of the tension, and the scientist then in that atmosphere will be able to decide the issue in the true perspective and do what could be deemed safe and good.

It indeed is much depressing to note that if a very few person would be excepted, the mankind today in this age of knowledge and science could be declared as so utterly ignorant of the subject of atomic energy and nuclear science as if neither the atomic energy nor the nuclear science existed in the world. Not even all the scientists know the subject fully well. The subject of nuclear science is a very particular and indeed very complicated subject and it is the atomists and the physicists and the radiobiologists that would be expected to know the topic fully well. Few among the non-scientist intelligentsia of the world could be expected to know even a tithe of this insidious subject. The philosophers, literarum doctors, poets, priests, artists, mathematicians, engineers, judges, and historians inspite of their excellence in their own particular fields are mostly unacquainted with even the elementary principles not to speak of the complicacies of the subject. The denizens of the Stone Age might have known more about whetting and fashioning their stone implements than the denizens of this present age of science know about the subject that has come to mean as life and death to them. But more dismaying is the factor that of the ignorance in this respect, of the heads of states, their ministers and secretaries. It is in the hands of these dignitaries that the policies regarding the atomic projects lie and they always are a prey to the spirit of international competition and rivalry. Having not an inkling of the hazards of atomic energy they could not be expected to take a safer course. If all the obstacles are cleared from their way, it is certain that not an inch on this earth of God will remain without an atomic reactor, and within a short time all mankind would perish as the victims of radiation. Jimmi Carter, the President of America is perhaps the only one of the Heads of States who is reputed as an atomic engineer. But how the knowledge of one President could atone for the ignorance of most, in fact, far more essential than any project undertaken in the world today is that of imparting the knowledge of nuclear science and the atomic energy to the mankind in general, for it is on this topic that all the future of mankind rests. The atomic energy wrongly adopted will throw all the rest of the projects into the flames of gehanna along with all the functionaries themselves. The pangs of hunger are indeed severe, but severer are the pains of cancer. A Community which knows the reality of the hazards of the atomic energy could only be expected to give a decision against the adoption of atomic energy. Indeed great sagacity, great understanding, and great will power is required to vote against the atomic energy. Half-learned and credulous are busy in producing dream sketches of a future magical world of atoms. Men flashing like light from one end of the world to its other end and out in space, and people travelling in wheel-less trains that fly, etc. These are ridiculous flights of unchecked fancy. A world under the hail of atomic blasts, and a world turned into cancer-ridden chimeras are the scenes more worthy of a gentleman's fancy. They who have a cause to dread the atomic bombs they certainly have an equal cause to dread the atomic energy-for-peace too. The presence of the atomic energy in any form serves as a bridge to connect the field of the atomic warfare.

And, now in the end of this chapter we will produce in the manner of analysis, three factors, namely, the extent of our present knowledge of radiations in radiobiology, and our knowledge of the varieties of radiation, and the extent of our control on the effects of radiation, so that the reader may himself judge the plausibility of the adoption of atomic energy at this stage in the light of the hazards incident on it.


(2)	THE PRESENT STATE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE Of F RADIATIONS IN REFE-RENCE TO RADIOBIOLGOY

Our knowledge in this respect as yet is relatively too meagre to permit a venture at the adoption of atomic energy. The following points may be presented to illustrate the situation:-

(a) Clues are there, indeed numerous, but the key discoveries have yet to be made.

(b) Nothing is as yet known of the details of the fine structure of the nucleus of the cell in the resting stage.

(c) The division of function between cytoplasm and nucleus is not clear cut, and there is considerable evidence for the presence of some genetic factors in the cytoplasm while a considerable amount of synthesis of structural material also occurs in the nucleus.

(d) Neither of the current hypothesis about the chromosome-breaks is correct and theory will have to be evolved which incorporates the features of both.

(e) The nature of the injury which holds up the normal cell cycle for a time is not known.

(f) The mechanism by which enzymes can cause specific chemical reaction to take place is not understood.

(g) The Synthesis of proteins from amino-acids is a reaction which has so far completely defied the ingenuity of the Chemists.

(h) No convincing reason has yet been put forward to explain why there are tremendous variations between different cells in their response to radiation; only when this is known will it be possible to base radio-therapy of cancer or methods of protection against radiation on a reliable foundation. It is a measure of difficulty and complexity of the subject that not even attentive answer can be given to the question. The key problem of cancer research is : What stimuli cause cell to stop dividing when an organ reaches correct size, and to repair damage after an injury.

(i) The mechanism by which radiation eradicates tumours is extremely complex.

(j) The way in which tumour cells are killed or sterilized is not fully understood.

(k) All the stages as yet between the passages of radiation through the irradiated organs and the final injury cannot be followed.

(l) It is difficult to predict the course and outcome of radiation treatment.

(m) The most obvious effect of radiation on cell is death, but even this drastic change is far from easy to define for the individual cell.

(n) No complete explanation can be given for the paradox that although the pathological changes from whole body irradiation are diffuse and ill-defined, yet death occurs with remarkable regularity. This is a sort of a mystery which of all the various kinds of poisons is a peculiarly distinctive characteristic of atomic radiation.

(o) The symptoms of acute radiation sickness can be summarized but they tell us little about the cause of death. If a pathologist carries out a postmortem examination on mammal which has succumbed after a radiation dose of a few hundred Roentgen he would find it very difficult to pinpoint death to failure of a particular organ.

(p) No treatment has yet been found which applied sometime after irradiation, can reduce the number of mutations; since no recovery is possible from mutation, no post irradiation treatment would be expected to restore a mutation. Even that little which has been discovered to be of some effect before irradiation can be considered of little practical use due to the insidious nature of radiation.

(q) No answer can be given to the question, whether chemicals can protect against the long-term effects of radiation. Technical difficulties make it extremely hard to measure accurately the mutations produced in mammals.

(r) It is not known how a dose of radiation sufficient to kill or visibly injure cell represents such a minute amount of energy that it could only affect a very few molecules, a change totally insufficient to bring about the pronounced biological effects directly. It in fact is a challenge to the scientists.

(s) It is both a disappointment and surprise that no effective substances against radiation effect has been found. This sentence contains a meaning that should serve as a barrier to the adoption of atomic energy at this stage. It ought to have been inscribed on the entrance of every atomic plant and every atomic research laboratory. But mark the blindness of the world.

(t) Even the much talked about permissive dose is merely conjectural, and it naturally should come as no mild surprise to those that have hitherto cherished a belief in unquestionable certainty of science.

This topic of nuclear science has in the very outset put science to disgrace and has thrown its reputation as exact knowledge into jeopardy. Ultimately this very topic will destroy science and along with science the mankind. Science has committed the gravest mistake in making the atomic bombs and atomic reactors without at the same time discovering the protection against these monstrosities.

We have presently dwelt at length on the meagerness of our present knowledge of the subject of radiations in radiobiology. Leaving these things to the erudite, we will centralize the whole theme on one point, namely that of the permissible dose. The fact is that the permissible dose of radiation is only conjectural. It is conjectural because its correct amount cannot be estimated until the experimental data is available. The experimental data will be available only after the genetic effects of radiation have appeared in mankind. These effects shall make their appearance only after several generations (the number of these generations being unknown at present). It obviously means that the recommendation of the use of atomic-energy-for-peace no more than to make mankind the guinea pigs of the experimentation for generations to come until in some generation the genetic effects of radiation appear in the form of abnormal births or in some other form, and then only it will be possible to judge and estimate the exact amount of the permissible dose. Take lesson and pay heed to it then, O, unfortunate mankind, poor, miserable guinea pigs of radiation and do not allow yourself to become the victims of radiation experimentation, the dreadful experimentation, for, once the genetic effects of radiation have appeared in some future generation then the judgment of the permissible dose shall be of no avail. The die then shall have been cast and the destinies spun. The genetic damage of radiation you know, is irreversible, irreparable, inheritable, cumulative and multiplicative and there is neither any protection nor any remedy. Mankind then will have been irrevocably lost, and the scientist will then be nowhere to be seen. But the real method of averting the atomic danger is to remove the three basic evils. Do not slander. Do not throw yourself into the constant pursuit of wealth of the world as the object of your life. Do not think that you have to live in this world for ever, nor that your wealth shall render your immortal.

(3) ESTABLISHED VERITIES OF THE SUBJECT OF RADIATIONS

And now after the shortcomings of the subject of radiation have been understood, let us summarize the varieties of the subject of radiation that is the points that are established with certainty so that the justification of the adoption for atomic-energy-for-peace at this stage be assessed by the inquisitive reader. It is very decisive digest and must therefore be read and understood with care due to it:-

(a) Radiations are inherent in the very nature of atomic energy, and not so much as a single fission could be caused without at the same time causing the emission of radiation and hence not a fission bomb could be detonated without at the same time inundating the effective zone with atomic radiations. The fusion bomb due to its terrific explosive force would even disperse the radioactive fission products of the accompanied fission device all over the earth. This inevitability of the production of radiations during the fission process is a question that brooks no negligence and affords no escape

(b) All radiations are naturally detrimental to health and life, no matter how negligible the amount thereof.

(c) No protection against atomic radiation is possible except by completely, materially covering the actual source of radiation. The sources of atomic energy which essentially are the source of atomic radiation are liable to leakage and explosion. Covering every single individual materially to protect against radiation is an impossibility. In case an atomic reactor explodes to flood the neighbouring district with radiations, inhabitants thereof are simply on the mercy of the elements. They are exposed to somatic as well as genetic effects of radiations dispersed by the leaking or exploded reactor. Those who would suffer from radiation-sickness might die or might survive the effects but the factor of the genetic effects of radiations constitutes a very serious hazard due to the long-term effects. The mutated genes moving through generations secretly may ultimately manifest their existence in the form of abnormal births. These effects being inheritable, cumulative and multiplicative may in the long run constitute a very serious hazard to the populations. The thing then, when it is viewed in a future perspective of an overwhelming redundancy of atomic reactors and other sources of radioactivity all over the world should appear in truly dangerous form. The problem of providing universal protection therefore has as a rule to be solved before venturing at the adoption of the atomic energy. Or else it would mean a blind leap into a burning hell of fire unprotected.

(d) No sure cure for radiation injury has hitherto been discovered and none as yet is in sight. Judging from the difficulty of the matter due to the occurrence of radiation reactions in sub-atomic and generally beyond man's vision regions of matter, and the difficulty of brining the sub-atomic structures of atoms disrupted by the reactions of radiations back to their original arrangement, the discovery of a sure cure for radiation injury might seem a matter to promise very dubious success. The genetic effects of radiation as is well known are simply irreversible and irreparable without any possibility of a remedy. However, even if it is assumed that some sure cure for radiation sickness might someday be discovered it may be equally assumed that the radiations might by then have done enough irreparable damage to mankind and the discovery may prove untimely and of little worth.

(e) There are no means of detecting and recessive genes until they have themselves made their existence manifest in the form of abnormal births, nor there happen to be any measures of preventing, checking, or curing them. This indeed as is obvious is a very ugly feature of radiation effects, and it is this feature that may become the cause of the extinction of human race and all life after an indefinite span of miserable existence on earth.

(f) The genetic effects of radiation are quite independent of dose rate. Even the smallest dose rate such as is incapable of producing any symptoms of radiation-sickness or cancer is yet capable of causing gene mutations. This evidently is a very dangerous aspect of radiation injury, and speaks against the adoption of atomic energy.

(g) When ordinary mice are injected after irradiation with bone marrow from a mutant strain, all the cells in the blood forming organs of the ordinary mice may be found to contain the sickle-shaped chromosome. This concept has been extended and it has been found that even rat cells would take and multiply in irradiated mice. The mouse has become the chimera, the mythological monster with a lion's head, goat's body and a serpent's tail. This experiment has shown that the creatures in the age of radiations are to be subjected to the surest risk of becoming chimeras of innumerable forms. This experiment alone was enough to bring about instantaneous cessation of all the atomic energy activities without any thought of recurrence to the topic in a world not doomed to atomic devastation. But unfortunately it had no effect on a doomed race and the experiment was hailed as one that opened up the possibilities of prolonging life.

(h) Reverting to the topic of gene mutations, it must be known that gene mutations are secretly transmitted to future generations successively generation after generation till they have made their existence manifest in the form of an abnormal birth. These abnormalities being inheritable, monsters beget monsters. The monsters and monstrosities further multiply in forms and numbers through marriages. This processes goes on till the whole or most of mankind would turn into a race of chimeras of thousands of different kinds. The same could be said of all the flaura and fauna. And these are not mere fantasies but true realities which undoubtedly reveal the blindness of this present humanity that inspite of all this knowledge should be found ready to adopt atomic energy. Radiations will secretly keep on preparing the mankind for the metamorphosis in a future generation, and will keep on undermining the health of successive generations till the whole of mankind is changed into a lot of ailing, sickly, miserable people. In a world economically ruined and changed into a vast hospital. Atomic-energy plants will then be dreaded and deserted.

(i) The amount of permissible dose is not certain. Generations are required to pass away to provide the results of nuclear experiment. But when the results will appear, then to ban the atomic energy will be of little avail to any one, for the mankind will by then have been effectively dynamited, indeed irreparably, irreversibly, openly and insidiously.

These are the facts that only the doomed ones can ignore. Still there is some little margin left for thought. Still the schemes of the atomic-energy-for-peace could be abandoned with little or no loss to any one. Today no danger of industrial disruption of the world is involved in the banishment of atomic energy, but in a future stage when in an atmosphere of full-fledged atomic energy mankind will be obliged to abandon atomic energy due to unbearable miseries brought about by it, the abandonment will mean industrial disasters, and all the industrial set up of the world shall go to pieces leaving it in the grip of famines, diseases, epidemics and a hundred other miseries. But of all the innumerable grieves that mercilessly cut at the strings of the miserable heart of anyone who is endowed with sufficient imagination to have a peep into the conditions of the future atomic age, a glaring one that seems to cut deeper into the heart is that the department of medicine, doctors, nurses, radiotherapists and the medical attendants that constitute a profession, at present rendering most humanitarian service with untainted sincerity in this age, should be reduced by the necessity in the future age of atomic energy to employ all their toil, talent, time and service in a constant, gruesome and desperate combat with the world-wide and all-pervading maladies produced every where by atomic radiations when this earth will be changed into a vast asylum of radiation-ailments in which the men of medicines shall be discerned as the panic-striken keepers unsuccessfully avoiding the wailing clamours of a world of miserable and cancer-ridden patients and spurning at the outrageous sally of those clutching at their stained apparel.

(j) The fusion process of generating the atomic energy is free from radiations. Were this fusion process of any practical use it could have been deemed as a God-sent boon by power-hungry mankind in a time of urgent need, but alas, the atomic energy was not meant to be a boon, it was not created to serve the purpose of energy, but rather it was meant to be a punishment and retribution. The fusion process is not possible without the radiation-emitting fission process. Also, the temperatures at which the fusion process is possible are such as may reduce every earthly substance to gaseous state .The fusion fire could not simply be contained on earth.

(4) LIMITS OF MAN'S CONTROL OVER RADIATIONS

Now, then, after having known the extent of man's knowledge of radiations in reference to radiobiology, and having known also the established verities of radiations, let us see the limits of man's control over radiations and their effects. We will thereafter leave the reader to make his own judgment in the light of these veritable facts, if there existed any plausibility in the adoption of atomic energy in such a situation, or was mankind determined to play the blind and ignore every warning:-

(a) The emission of radiation cannot be segregated or stopped during the generation of atomic energy.

(b) Sources of atomic energy could be covered. The employees of the atomic energy plants could also be provided with radiation-proof dresses. But neither the possibility of the leakage and explosion of the atomic energy plants be eliminated, nor the entire population of the world could be furnished with the means of the protection against the vagrant radiations. The state will certainly worsen in a future age of full-fledged atomic energy, when the sources of atomic energy will be various, and widespread and the leakage and explosions of atomic plants will be frequent.

(c) Standards of permissive dose are no doubt set, but what means are to stop the penetration of radiation in a body after the standard level has entered a body. There simply exists no means to that effect, except indeed by avoiding the radiations, but how to avoid the radiations when the covered sources of radiations are liable to leakage and explosion and every individual in the world cannot possibly be covered against radiations. To simply calculate therefore the amount of permissive dose is of little avail in practice unless some sure means of protection are there. Worst still is the case of the global radiological hazard from thermonuclear bombs in test explosions or actual atomic war. This fallout spreads itself all over the earth and contaminates every place with radioactivity. This is a case in which even if every individual member of mankind is covered materially against radiation, the arrangement would prove useless because the sources of water and the plants and crops are made radio-active and the hazard becomes effective through ingestion and inhalation. The protection of populations from the radiological hazard of the fallout thus is not a possibility. The scientists have set a limit to the number of test explosions. If the number of test explosions exceeds that limit then according to the scientists the hazard of radioactivity would be substantial to the entire mankind. But a doomed race has paid little heed to their timely warning and test explosions continue without any regard to the warning of the scientists or the general health of mankind. This source of the hazard, however, is nothing in comparison to that radio-anarchy which is likely to prevail in the world in the form of a raging storm of radiations in the future age of full-fledged atomic energy-for-peace. Who amidst a raging battle cares about little formalities and who cares that the amount of permissive dose set at present in the manner of a sheer conjecture may prove erroneous and disastrous when the actual results appear a few generations hence .But the present laughter has the present mirth. Let this present generation enjoy the fruits of atomic energy and who knows about tomorrow. When future generations will come they will themselves pay the genetic debt in addition to several other kinds of debt. The bones of the present generation might by then have been reduced to dust. Time is great judge. It is slow in giving its judgment, but particularly in the case of the effects of atomic energy it seems slower still. It is only after the lapse of several generations that its verdict will appear in a practical form. And then there will be no chance of repentance. The sentence will prove final. It makes one sad to see how the health, wealth, life, joy, hope and all is being pawned with such indifference and in such utter folly.

(d) Once some radioactive substance has entered a body, it settles in the bone marrow and it is impossible to expel it thence and there it remains at perfect leisure to cause bone cancers and malignant tumours. It settles in the bone with such tenacity that even after the individual is long dead its bones click to the Geiger Counter.

(e) When the cell has been attacked by radiation nothing could be done either to avoid or to cure the injury. Whether the cell is killed or mutilated or whether it survives is a question of its own ability and the lethal efficacy of radiation. Man himself hitherto is quite helpless in the conflict. He has no power to affect the response of the cell to radiation.

(f) As regards radiation-sickness the situation is equally hopeless. No therapeutic measures have hitherto been found of any avail in case of radiation sickness. If infection which is a particular characteristic of radiation-sickness were the cause of death, the effect of antibiotics, which have been found to be very effective otherwise, is far from spectacular in the infection of radiation-sickness. If the cause of death were anemia, which is a particular feature of radiation-sickness, then blood transfusions ought to prevent it, but in practice no increase in survival or even significant increase in the time between irradiation and death is found by giving intensive transfusions. Neither the antibiotics increase resistance of the animals to a lethal dose, nor blood transfusions help them out of the trouble and the lethal dose proves lethal with the inevitability of fate. Prompt treatment of infections may be of some help, but on the whole the outcome is almost entirely dependent on the make up of the individual, and apart from rather obvious medical measures there is little scope for the physicians to influence the course of illness. It is difficult even to predict the course and outcome of radiation treatment. And yet inspite of all this the recommendations of the adoption of atomic energy are forthcoming in the name of peace, and for the sake of prosperity.

(g) Radiation causes gene mutations and nothing could be done. Gene mutations are transmitted to future generations and nothing could be done. Recessive genes make their existence manifest in abnormal births and nothing at all could be done. The abnormalities multiply through marriage and nothing, absolutely nothing could be done. Abnormalities assume chimerical forms and again nothing could be done. Genetic damage of radiation is irreversible and irreparable. Repair and restitution cannot occur as they do in radiation-sickness, and this is the most ugly feature of the whole radio-calamity. How then against all this certainty of the radio-disaster the use of atomic-energy-for-peace, is recommended, and why the atomic energy-for-peace is cherished, could only be explained by those who recommend it or those who adopt it. Mankind has to sink with the boat now oared by a few enthusiasts, singing all the while their song of deadly mirth in a drunken state and steering blindly into the stormy pacific of nuclear death.

(h) Radiation today is acclaimed as the sure, universal remedy for cancer. Apart from the fact that radiation does not cure cancer, it only destroys it there is every possibility of recurrence. The fact that the redundance of radiation in the age of atomic energy will mean a comparative redundancy of cancer for radiation not only cures cancer, it also causes it-----is completely ignored and who inspite of every sympathy with unfortunate patients of cancer will not be moved to tears at such gross neglect of the dictates of sagacity by those that are to be considered as the beacons of light in this age of knowledge and science. Tears these days are a thing of rarity and are nowhere shed. Sorrow, however and anxiety could be found in relative abundance. The point is, how any one can fail to picture the age of atomic energy as the age of cancer-ridden chimeras.

(i) Then there is the idea of prophylactic measures, the idea of administering a chemical substance with a view to influencing the development of radiation injury at one of the many stages prior to the appearance of the harmful effects of radiation. These substances are believed to work only if given before irradiation, and have no effects whatsoever if administered afterwards, even if only seconds have elapsed. Moreover they are more active within a few minutes of the radiation, and only one or two can be taken as long as an hour beforehand. Cysteine is the compound used for this purpose. Becaptan is another one discovered by the Belgian Scientist Z.M.Bacq. The scientists lament that it is both a disappointment and a surprise that in spite of the great efforts which have been made, no substance has yet been found which is more effective than Cysteine, the very first compound ever to be tried for this purpose. The disappointment and surprise of the scientist in this matter may perhaps be justifiable but equally justified would be the surprise and disappointment of anyone at the disappointment and surprise of the scientist in this matter. One finds it hard to believe one's own eyes to see the same man building with one hand the atomic bombs and rolling with his other hand becaptan and cysteine into pills as the antidotes for the atomic bombs. Men highly talented and fully acquainted with the ways of research in science only could reconcile themselves to this idea which is but a novelty to any simple layman. Without any hesitation and indeed without finding it necessary to expand words on the probable utility of any such protectors as becaptan and cysteine and the like in the event of the atomic war or in the epoch of atomic-energy-for-peace, the most that could be said about cysteine is that it bears a vocal resemblance to the name of great Einstein while becaptan shows a resemblance to the word PICADON, the Japanese word for the atomic bomb. The world can no doubt cry cysteine to the atomic bomb and yell becaptan against picadon to ensure safety.

(j) Then there is the eternal nuisance of the Radio-active residue of the atomic plants. Burying it in the ground, casting it into the river or depositing it into the seas, all have proved equally futile and the hazard of radio-activity is there Clamorous complaints and heated protests of the afflicted and frightened neighboring districts are on ever increase and offer a perpetual headache to the authorities. In case these materials are deposited into the sea, the creatures of sea are affected by radio-activity and are soon seen floating on the surface of water dead as if in a mute protest against the folly of a callous-minded mankind. If this then be the condition now that there are but a few atomic reactors functioning throughout the world, what shall be the condition of the world when myriads of atomic plants of many varieties will be functioning and excreting heaps of radio-active wastes every-where. Whichever way one cares to look on the subject of atomic energy it appears as a curse and chastisement more than it seems a blessing.

The only justifiable and scientific conclusion is the postponement of the adoption of atomic energy till full control over the subject is achieved, full protection to every individual human-being, animal and plant against radiation is guaranteed, and sure cure for radiation-sickness is discovered by accomplishing control over nuclear regions and by understanding the nuclear science completely. The remoteness of such a probability, however, is known to some knowledgeable scientists. The rest are only playing the tool and the ostrich. No control on and no protection against radiation at present is there, and the fact is being overlooked due to a hope of one day finding the solution of the problem though they have no faith in miracles. As regards atomic weapons all the world is agreed as to their undesirability, due to the knowledge of their all-annihilating and pernicious nature, what obstruction there is then to the destruction of these weapons before they have destroyed the world. Is then an example more glaring of ostriching needed.

CHAPTER-II

THE AGE OF FULL-FLEDGED ATOMIC ENERGY-FOR-PEACE; THE AGE OF UNTOUCHABLES

(A) Untouchability to be a Universal vogue of the age of Full-fledged Atomic Energy

And now having no time to sit and wonder how a mankind should venture to adopt the atomic-energy-for-peace on the dint of such scanty knowledge of the subject and so little control over the radiations as against so sure a knowledge of such veritable hazards of the venture as are essentially incident on the adoption of atomic energy, hazards to bring about the sure ruin of entire mankind, nay even the whole life on earth, we venture to peep into the future world of Radio-untouchability. The age of atomic energy, brethren! is going to be an age of untouchables. The present generation, however, has a little cause to worry about, for it may escape the experience of the darkest aspects of the venture. The posterity only will suffer. Let it, however, not be taken as a surety that this present generation will pass away unscathed by the effects of radiation, for, it is liable to contract radiation sickness, cancer and genetic disorders. And also atomic war may suddenly appear and throw every thing in disorder. Radiations have short term effects too.

Bacon's design, was, by means of inquiries some of which should be experimental like those of the Al-Chemists, but purged from all superstitious taint and directed not toward immediate gain, but towards a thoroughgoing knowledge vastly to increase in the long run the dominion of man over nature. To enjoy such a dominion was, he held the original destiny of our race. How little than Bacon knew, that his design despite all its affected magnanimity of sentiment and extreme cautiousness was destined to subject mankind to the hail of atomic bombs and the stings of deadly nuclear radiations. The ambition of acquiring dominion over the forces of nature proved to be a costly affair and the apparently yielding nature turned out in the long run as a very formidable opponent capable of devouring its prospective conquerors. The scientist's design regarding the atomic energy is by means of researches all of which should be experimental, but directed not toward a thoroughgoing or finalized knowledge of the subject, or to prior acquirement of means of effective and universal protection against radiation hazards, but rather directed toward immediate gain, adopting and advancing in the field, tackling radiation problems step by step, stage by stage, as the occasion in the adoption of a certain point in the course of the development of the atomic energy arose. Thus adopting and developing the atomic energy and brining it into the harness point by point applying such local protection, as the occasion may presently deemed against radiation, but also besides that conducting independent and continuous researches with a view to discovering more efficient means of protection against the radiation hazard and some sure cure for radiation sickness and radio-genetic injuries. To enjoy such a utility of atomic energy is according to the scientist the indispensable necessity of the modern mankind of this atomic age. There, however, was certainly some flaw in Bacon's design that engineered the slide of mankind into the atomic hell replete with atomic bombs and deadly radiations. And there is certainly a perceptible flaw in the design of the atomists as regards the atomic energy. If the flaw of Bacon's design in assigning the increase in dominion over nature as the sole object of life to man led the mankind into the atomic hell, the flaw of the scientist in adopting atomic energy prior to providing mankind with complete means of protection against radiations will turn this mankind and along with it all the living world into a hoards of stinking cancer-ridden touch-me-nots.

Perhaps perceiving the possible dangers when toward the close of the nineteenth century the scientists were engaged in breaking the unbreakable atom, Lord Rayleigh, himself a prominent scientist had said, "There is no possibility of telling whether the issue of the scientists' work will prove them to be fiends or dreamers or angels". In prermodern times the scientist was generally regarded as a conjurer in leaguer with devil. In modern age, however, the scientist due to his knowledge, sincerity, sacrifice, ingenuity and above all else his material services to mankind came to be regarded as one worthy of gratitude and honourable benefactor of mankind. But alas, it seems as if history is going to repeat itself once more and perhaps fate has some terrible reverse in store for the scientist. The moment may arrive in the form of the atomic war when all the combined atrocities ever committed by the most tyrannical of the pirates, and the most despotic of princes, and the most cruel of the priestess, and the most blood-thirsty and most voracious of the conquerors in whole human history would be paled before the single atrocity of the benefactor of mankind who had built the atomic bomb. This judgment, however, could be left to those miserable people to whom the dreadful doom shall befall in the guise of the atomic explosion. Yet there is another atrocity of the scientist which as yet is screened by the dread of the atomic bomb and which actually is, if not more formidable than the atomic bomb at least as dreadful as the atomic bomb explosion itself. We mean the adoption of atomic-energy-for-peace before providing the mankind with protection against radiation and hoping only that some day the discovery of some effective protection may come. This point naturally cannot be exactly comprehended except by those unfortunate generations which will have the misfortune of suffering the frightful miseries of the atomic-energy-for-peace. They only will be able to truly appreciate the truth of atomic-energy-for-peace who will be changed by the atomic radiations into sickly, stinking cancer-ridden untouchables. Steeped in their radio-miseries they will sit and curse the men who had discovered all these means of unbearable miseries from which there is no way out. The fact that this world in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace will be changed into a world of untouchables may come as a strange news to many, but it is a fact.

The prohibition of touch is going to be a common characteristic feature and an all pervading vogue of the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace, so that the whole face of this earth shall be bestrewn with the signs like, "Caution", "Radio-activity", "Danger", "Radio-active materials within etc.".

The presence of Radio-active materials is announced by the sign, HOT, just as the sign of "DEATH 'S HEAD" is displayed as a warning wherever there is the danger of death, and indeed the radioactive materials are the deadliest of all the deadly things. The area in which some radio-active substance is kept is scientifically termed as "Hot Area", and a sign will certainly be found there to read, "Danger" ,"Hot Area"-----Radio-active Materials", and the instruction, "Keep this door closed", will always be found inscribed on the door of the room containing the radio-active material. Radio-active materials are called as Hot Materials, and even the pots that contain such materials are labeled as Hot. Now this word, "Hot", is frequently suggestive and strangely reminiscent of Hotama, not only for the quality of heat which is common to both, but also, and indeed very amusingly that the word "Hot" happens to be the abbreviation of the word Hotama, just as Gen. of General, Maj. of Major, Capt. is of Captain, and so on so forth. At first glance, no doubt, the resemblance may appear as a mere coincidence, but a careful examination of the case may well reveal a causal link and a functional resemblance to exist between the two terms. Nay, even if it were a mere coincidence, how strangely reminiscent a coincidence it shall prove to be, and how often the people of the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace will be reminded of this coincidence when at every point their eyes hall meet the sign "Hot", the exact abbreviation of "Hotama", to remind them of the prophetic term of Quran, namely, Hotama, and man then loaded with the miseries brought about by the radio-activity, will stop to see the caution "hot" and marvel at the oracular truth of the scripture and the miraculous omnipresence of the suggestive reminiscence to be prompted by the ever present site of the sign "Hot".

We live in an age in which atomic energy as yet is next only to nothing. A few places as yet exist where the radio-active substances are kept and a few signs of warning could accordingly be met with. But times may surely come when in the age of full-fledged atomic-energy-for-peace not a cubit of this earth may remain without the radio-active materials and consequently the sign "Hot", "Caution", "Keep out", "Radioactive materials within" etc. Hospitals, drug-stores, firms, factories, ships, aeroplanes, submarines, Railways, agricultural forms and defence areas will all be glutted with the warning signs, and men will move about in an atmosphere of constant fear, constant apprehension, constant dread of touch. They shall move in apprehension lest their sight may touch a warning sign, Hot, Keep away. History might have recorded many of worst type of anathema in the priest-ridden and superstitious ages of ancient past, but the radiation-ridden anathema of the future enlightened age of the atomic energy will surpass the bounds of human imagination. The unfortunate people of that age, when they will laugh, their laughter will resemble a guffaw of sighs and when they will sigh their sighs shall be mistaken for a laughter. Such will be their wonderment in their helplessness.

The drugs stores dealing with radioactive substances will have no soda fountain, toys, or the usual assortment as are displayed in most drugstores today. Even the drugs will be out of sight and will be viewed by the druggist through a mirror.

These drugs shall be too hot (radio-active) to examine except by remote control. When some one shall have an order for a radio-active liquid for a hospital, the druggist will locate the bottle containing the required medicines by looking in a tilted mirror there fitted to show him what is stored behind a 2-foot concrete wall. Using a metal arm with metal fingers, he will roll out a small drawer full of bottles, will grasp the correct bottle, and lift it from the drawer. He will uncap the bottle by a remote control syringe, and cap both bottles without touching a thing. Clanging bells will set off when Geiger Counters will register radiation from open drawers, and will continue until the operation is complete. The bottle shall be tugged into a lead-box through which the deadly rays cannot emerge. It shall be shipped to the hospital by aeroplane, train, or truck.

A doctor administering a radio-active medicine to the patient will use metal tongs to administer the atomic beverage to the patient.

All hospital workers and visitors shall be checked when they leave hospital to make sure that they have not picked up dangerous radiations. Inside a laboratory a man in red collared protective clothing will be seen pushing an instrument called FIDO, in search of spilled radio-active materials.

Men working on atomic projects will be seen dressed in radiation proof dresses which in the first sight may suggest their origin in some distant planet.

Mark this dress. But this is worn only by the employees of the atomic plants. Who will cause every individual of the world to wear such a dress all the time. Radiations in the age of atomic energy are not going to be confined only to the atomic plants, but the leakage and explosions of the atomic reactors and their great redundance, and the alarming abundance of radioactive residue will cause the prevalence of radiations over larger areas in neighbouring regions all over the world. Who then will be able to oblige every single individual in the world to wear such dress, and who will be able to wear such dresses all the time from the cradle to the grave, changing the dress in radiation proof closets and taking bath in a radiation proof bath-room, and even sleeping in such a dress has to be like a skin if a sure protection is to be guaranteed, for who knows when and where the radiation will attack. It is quite apparent that such an arrangement is well nigh impossible, and it is quite certain that without such an arrangement the destruction of mankind through radiations is almost sure. It has to be remembered that the genetic effects of radiations are cumulative and even multiplicative and the involvement of a smaller population could be automatically developed into the involvement of larger populations. Alas, for my poor miserable fellow humans! to what a pass you have been driven in your history. An even stranger suit will sometimes be worn by repairmen in atomic plants who shall have to work where bulky suits may be nuisance. These workers shall crawl into a thin plastic suit through the long tunnel-like opening at a port hole in an adjoining room. Cables through the tubes will supply air for breathing, and see the union of the ghostliness with the ghastliness hand in hand, through the dress.

Yet all such precautions may prove futile, for radiation cannot be detected by five senses, while the least leakage of radiation may cause gene mutations with dreadful consequences to the victim's posterity. Man may carry the genetic load without any sign or sickness to the end of his life.

This is a horrid picture to behold. It is dreadful and terrifying. Yet it is nothing in comparison to that picture of the entire mankind in the atomic age which shall appear as a horrid portrait of a stinking, cancer-ridden, leprous race. The picture of the atomic age in these days of false expectations is drawn in such an exquisite relief, and the atomists are sketched in such enviously spotless attires, and in such impeccable health and form, such sharp well chiseled features turned to such exhillarative music, as every on-looker may cherish the age of atomic energy as an age beaming with health, overflowing with wealth, extremely smart, specifically tidy, in short a replica of paradise, a sample of acme, a specimen of utopia, yet the fact is that, that is going to be the worst type of hades that could possibly be imagined on this earth. The atomists of that age will appear like a bundle of oozing cancers. Their dresses shall be stained, and not of whistling but of groaning shall be their appearance. The dirt produced by oil and soot might not be there in the age of atomic energy but the noxious heaps of tormenting radioactive residue of reactors, and the drum-fuls of the dark stinking blood of radiation victims, millions of them, will far outstrip the oil age in filth. In that filth, atomists of that age will be obliged to work, and in no way in the likeness of those fanciful pictures in which they are drawn these days by the eluded artist, but rather appearing in the likeness of sackfuls of poisonous blood covered all over with a motley of ugly warts, cysts, cancers, running sores and lacerating ulcers, and engaged not so much in discoveries for the benefit of mankind as whisking ever-tormenting swarms of obstinate flies. The present generation of the atomists may, however, entertain the consolation of passing away unhurt by the radiations, but not without a severe torment of their conscience for leaving the formidable debt to the future generations of the atomists to be paid by them in time.

A host of health physicists in the age of atomic energy shall have to play the detective by checking through the hospitals with a Geiger Counter, and by keeping count of the exposures of the staff to the touch of the radiations, uncontrolled chronic exposure to radiation can cause cancer. But who will be there to move with Geiger Counters among all those millions of unprotected people in cities, villages and other remote places to keep account of their exposures to the vagrant radiation issuing from the leaking and explosing reactors all over the world.

Workers in atomic plants will never touch anything radio-active. No sooner than the Uranium is converted into Plutonium it shall become untouchable. It shall be handled by mechanical hands only, and by remote control. Workers will not even be able to safely breath the air around the cans containing plutonium. All atomic plants shall be shielded by thick concrete walls and the holes will be plugged with lead. The atomic plant itself will resemble a colony of untouchables. Not only its employees will not be allowed to touch anything radio-active, but it shall itself be completely covered materially to stop the radiations from spreading. Men working in an atomic plant will have to be completely shielded as a precaution against the possible leakage of radiation from the plant or the explosion thereof. Workers will not be allowed to touch anything without first wearing the gloves. No radio-active material will be left outside the lead-boxes. Each worker will be obliged to wear a special film badge which registers the touch of radioactivity. Geiger Counters, cutie pies, and pee wees will always be engaged in detecting the slightest touch of radiation anywhere, any time. In Hot Caves sometimes called Hot Cells------ these are huge closed boxes for radiation experiments ----no one will be allowed to touch Uranium or breath-air around it. Artificial mechanical hands will be used to handle the stuff. These are devices which work exactly like human hands and are used because human hands are forbidden to touch radio-active things. Every thing will be first tested for the presence of radiation, and will be entered or touched only after it has been dead sure, that the radiation is not there. That in short will be an age of miserable untouchables.

In hospitals radio-therapists will not touch the patient during radiation treatment, but it will watch the operation of radiations through a water-filled glass window two feet thick. The patient shall lie under the rays of radium in an adjacent shielded room as untouchable in an untouchable room under the rays of untouchable radium and under the supervision of untouchable doctors in a world of untouchables. A world in which the wife will cry to the husband, you are Hot, touch me not, keep away. The husband will cry to the wife, you are Hot, touch me not, keep away. A doctor will be reluctant to enter a ward of cancer due to unbearable odour and will shun the touch of the patient. The habit of fearing the touch of anything will be so impressed in the mind of the every individual member of mankind that they will tread on earth like a people treading the snake-infested area in the dark, and will be seen suddenly and frequently jumping in air in imaginary fear of the touch, as if they constantly walked on an earth bestrewn with hundreds of thousands of booby traps. You will see them every now and then suddenly startled at the touch of some imaginary figure and having emitted a low simultaneous scream of fear to pause and wonder in silent surprise to remind you of a human figure in some ancient superstitious age in a dark night rushing madly, and panting and perspiring, and falling and rising and running before some imaginary apparition of a ghost that would follow him to his house where he would lie in bed sick with seething fever for about a fortnight to recover or to expire. Indeed a world of hideous, odious, and loathsome untouchables would furnish a Dante with a horrifying medley of spectacles though not for a "Divine Comedy" but a "temporal tragedy".

(B) ALSAMARI; THE TOUCH ME NOT

The touch me not feature of the age of atomic energy carries our mind back to a time centuries before the era of Democritus, the founder of the atomic theory-----in the vicinity of Mount Senai, amidst the songs and outcries of a people engaged the worship of a golden calf prepared by a person called Al-Samari in the absence of their Prophet Moses who had ascended the Mount Senai to receive the statue from his God at the end of a forty day's stay on the Mount in worship of God.

THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL

The people of Israel had carried with them Ornaments of gold, rings, bracelets and the like, which they had borrowed of the Egyptians at the time of Exodus, under pretext of decking themselves out for some feast, and had not returned. These ornaments they had always thought as unlawful to keep and as the occasion of much wickedness, and had therefore always felt uneasy about them. In the absence of Moses, Al-Samari caused these ornaments to be collected, cast them in fire and threw a handful of dust which he had picked up from the footsteps of horse of the angel, and lo! a lowing calf came out. And when the calf was there, it was said, here O Israel! is your God, but Moses has forgotten. The people forthwith began to celebrate and worship it as their deity.

When Moses returned from the Mount overwhelmed with wrath and grief at the catastrophic folly and wickedness of his people, he vehemently reprehended his brother Aaron whom he had delegated the charge of his people during his absence in the mount ----for not seconding his zeal in taking arms against the idolaters, or for not coming after him to the mountain to acquaint him with the rebellion. Aaron excused himself by saying "I did not take arms against the worshippers of the calf, fearing lest you should say, that I had raised a seduction among the people, and I did not go to you lest you should blame me for abandoning my charge, and not waiting your return to rectify what was amiss".

Moses then turned to Al-Samari and questioned him regarding his design. To which Al-Samari said �I perceived which they did not perceive, so I seized a handful from the foot-steps of the messenger and then threw it in. Thus my mind commended to me". This is interpreted to mean that he had seen the angel Gabriel mounted on horse-back and had picked up a handful of dust from the foot-steps of the horse of the angel, and had perceived that something strange should happen if that dust were thrown into the molten mass. And so when he cast the dust into the molten mass, a lowing calf emerged. Upon hearing the reply of Al-Samari, Moses said "Get thee gone, for your punishment (in this life) shall be that you shall say (to those who shall meet you): TOUCH ME NOT, and there is for you a tryst (appointment) which you cannot break (hereafter). We will burn your god (the calf) to whose worship you have continued assiduously devoted, and will grind it to powder and scatter its dust over the sea". Moses then turned to the people and they who were guilty of calf-worship were put to the sword. Thousands fell atone the crime.

Soon the effects of the curse of Moses appeared on Al-Samari. It was observed to the chagrin both of Al-Samari and the people, that any one who was touched by Al-Samari was infected with fever, and if Al-Samari was touched by anyone. Al-Samari was infected with fever. Al-Samari was therefore obliged to avoid all communication with others, and was also shunned by them. He wandered in the desert like a wild lonely beast. His tent was always pitched alone and away from others. During the march he was seen trodding far in behind of the column.

The Quran has stated the event as follows:-

"Then Moses went back to his folk angry and sad. He said: O My People, hath not your Lord promised you a fair promise? Did the time appointed then appear too long for you, or did ye wish that wrath from your Lord should come upon you, that ye broke the promise which ye made me? They said: We broke not our promise with thee of our will, but we were laden with burdens of ornaments of the folk, then cast them (in the fire) away and Al-samari cast them and brought forth to them a corporeal lowing calf: and they said: This is your God and the God of Moses, but he hath forgotten. See they not then, that it returneth no saying unto them and posseseth for them neither hurt nor use? And Aaron indeed had told them before-hand : O my people, ye are but being seduced therewith, for lo, your lord is the beneficent. So follow me and obey my order. They said : We shall by no means cease to be its votaries till Moses returns to us. He (Moses) said, O Aaron, what held thee back when thou didst see them gone astray, that thou followedst me not? He said: O son of my mother, clutch not my beard nor my head, I feared lest thou shouldst say: thou hast caused division among the children of Israel, and hast not waited for my word. (Moses) said : And what hast thou to say O Samari? He said: I perceived what they perceived not, so I seized a handful from the footsteps of the messenger and then threw it in. Thus my soul commended to me. (Moses) said: Then go, and lo, in this life it is for thee to say: TOUCH (ME) NOT, and Lo, there is for thee a TRYST (Appointment) thou canst not break (Hereafter). Now look upon thy God of which thou hast remained a votary. Verily we will burn it, and will scatter its dust over the sea".

(Quran XX-86-97)

Regarding Al-Samari, some of the interpreter of the Quran say, he was an Israelitie, while others say he was an adept of Egyptian idolatry who had believed for a little while, and half-heartedly in the God of Moses.

Now the first part of the course of Moses to Al-Samari is clear. But as far as the TRYST (the appointment) is concerned the interpreters of the Quran have various views regarding it. Some say that by the appointment is meant the meeting on the Day of Judgment with God. While some say by the appointment, is meant that DAJJAL (Antichrist) will rise to complete the mission of Al-Samari. This second view is fraught with tragically significant meanings as far as this modern machine-ridden age of gold worship in concerned.

Without going into any discussion regarding the nature of the tryst (the appointment) of Al-Samari, the fact which it is impossible to be missed by anyone today is that the genius akin to that which had inspired Al-Samari, in the wilderness of Senai centuries before the birth of the founder of the theory of atomism, and indeed the spirit of scientific inquiry and invention akin to that which Al-Samari had been displayed, and also the mode and the process akin to that which he then had contemplated and adopted, are one and all to be found immanent as the basic features and distinctive characteristics of this modern age of scientific inquiry and invention. Every single detail of the experiment of Al-Samari from the initial vague perception of the idea of the application of the dust of the foot-steps of the horse of the angel to the unexpected emergence of the lowing calf could be seen exactly repeated in the invention of the talking gramophone. A room containing radio-active substance, and displaying the sign, Hot, Danger, Keep out, could with plausibility be likened to the tent of Al-Samari. The Gold calf worship too can be seen as a common feature.

Indeed the whole of the episode of Al-Samari could be seen repeated in the modern age, and the two cases bear an analogy as perfect as could be found in any other two cases in the history of analogy. View the expulsion of faith from the modern age by the philosophy of atomism against the absence of Moses in the Mount Senai, mineral sources of earth as against the ornaments of Israel, the burning desire for the material utility as against the ardent desire of Israel for a visible, substantial deity, the act of raising the wealth to the status of a goddess as against the moulding of the ornaments of Israel into the golden calf for worship, the guiding spirit of atomism as against the guiding angel of Israel, the reduction of the modern gold-producing machines through the atomic bombs to ashes as against the reduction of the golden calf of Israel to dust through fire, the massacre of the modern mankind through either atomic warfare or atomic radiations as retribution of three evils as against the massacre of the people of Israel for the atonement of their sin. And lastly the curse of untouchability in the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace or even after an atomic war as against the untouchability of Al-samari. A perfect analogy could be established between the two cases that are separated by centuries. A sacred inspiration applied to the ill-gotten wealth of ornaments caused the unexpected emergence of golden calf, and as a result came the grievous calamity to befall the people of Israel through sword. A genius applied to the minerals of earth with a view to producing gold, caused the emergence of gold producing-machines and as a result appeared a grievous calamity that of the destruction through the atomic bombs and atomic radiations to befall the modern mankind, further establish the analogy.

The factor of atonement of the sin, however, in the two cases stands at variance. The people of Israel atoned their sin of calf worship by slaying, every man his brother, every man his companion, every man his neighbour. But the case of the modern worshipers of the wealth is different. They too will indeed slay, every man his bother, every man his companion, every man his neighbour, and every nation will kill another nation, yet it will in no way be an atonement of their sin, it shall only be punishment without atonement. Those who will deserve among them the punishment of the atomic bombs in this world shall also be cast into the ever-burning hell of Al-Hotama to be broiled therein to eternity. The removal of the basic causes of the calamity and the reform may, albeit, eliminate even the necessity of atonement, and both the impending threat and the existing misery would vanish as if they never had existed and the carvan of humanity may advance on the path of real peace and real prosperity rejoicing in the mercy of their creator and chanting hosannas and alleluias under the moon-lit canopy of heaven in an atmosphere of paradistical breeze and diffused celestial fragrance.

Al-Samari, the real predecessor of atomism has hitherto been neglected. He has not ever been so much as mentioned in the galaxy of the worthies in the realm of atomism. In the west he is not so much as known. His name even has not been heard there. The modern writers have always lamented the fact that the scientific side of the theory of atomism after it was advanced by Democritus was for centuries neglected. The main target of their criticism has been the sect of Epicureans who, although they had adopted the theory of atomism as their own due to the atheistic affinity that existed between their own view and that of atomism, but had completely neglected its propensity for scientific inquiry and investigation. The point which these critics have hitherto overlooked is that in case the early Greeks had undertaken the scientific inquiry and investigation on the modern lines and with the same gusto, and their researches had continued without interruption, there is great likelihood, that traversing the path of atom to atomic bomb stage by stage, point by point, they should have arrived in the given time-----of course in a period far longer than taken by the modern west----at the stage of atomic energy and subsequently the atomic bomb, and the world perhaps would have been long since blown up to deprive these critics of the occasion of criticizing the negligence of Epicureans in the field of scientific inquiry and investigation. This casual introduction of Al-Samari may furnish these critics with an instance of scientific discovery and invention far back into the remote antiquity, at least centuries before the appearance of Epicureans, and furnish them also with a fresh cause to lament, namely, that the spirit of scientific discovery and invention which Al-Samari had introduced into the world in that remote antiquity was not kept up by the succeeding generations and was allowed to be extinguished. It perhaps is a little early as yet, but the true recognition of Al-samari, the touch-me-not shall certainly come to those unfortunate generations, the victims of atomic radiations in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace, which will be changed into cancer-ridden touch-me-nots them-selves to deplore their illuck as miserable untouchables.

This earth then will not be burned with the miserable existence of one Al-Samari, but rather the whole face of this earth shall be changed into a chess-board on which millions of figures skating aslant, apprehensive of the approaching figures on every side, all casting aside glance at each other and dreading the mutual touch.

CHAPTER-III

THE TERRIFIC WARNING OF MOSES TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL INVOLVES THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE IN THE MODERN AGE

We are tempted to produce in the end the most terrific but relevant warning of Moses which he gave to his people in his last address just a little before his departure from this transient world. Therein he enlarged at the blessings of the obedience, but at the same time he laid before them still more at length the consequences of apostasy and wickedness with a dark and melancholy foreboding of the final destiny of his people. The sublimation of his denunciations simply seems to have surpassed the human faculty of expression. Nature is exhausted in furnishing terrific images. Imagination shudders at the tremendous maledictions which warned the people of Israel against the violation of their law and the neglect of the voice of God. But the particular point which ultimately has emerged in the light of the existing and the impending condition of this modern mankind in this age of atomic energy is firstly, that the entire human race and not the people of Israel alone can be seen involved in the conditions implied by the particular maledictions of Moses, and secondly that the denunciations that had maintained a mode of figurative expression in the pre-atomic energy ages can be seen now in the age of the atomic energy to have assumed a literal form. For example the expression, �The rain of powder and dust from heaven until the destruction is complete", is an expression no more figurative after the global rain of the powder of the radiological fallout of the atomic explosions that does envisage the complete destruction of the entire human race has become a practical reality. There are great lessons or the mankind in this great warning of Moses so much so that we find it hard to dispense with the unpleasant duty of quoting one of the saddest of warnings. We now quote it in the following, each verse followed by its literal manifestation in this age. For reference see Deutronomy chapter 28:-

(15) "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the lord thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee".

"The heed which is being paid to either the voice of God or to his commandments and his statutes in this age of worldly materialistic, sceptical atomism cannot be a secret to anyone who happens to have some judgment".

(20) "The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed".

Every project in the age of atomic energy will be cursed with vexation and rebuke of radiations. The people will entertain a perpetual apprehension of fear in setting their hands in any thing in any work, for the acquired dread of secret radiations, till mankind is destroyed and has become extinct. They will want to possess the atomic energy, and atomic energy will rebuke them.

(21) "The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he has consumed thee from of the land, whither thou goest to possess it".

The atomic radiations will produce every kind of pestilence, sickenss and epidemic to cleave unto man wherever he shall proceed to possess a property in any part of the world, until eventually he has been consumed by the radiations.

(22) "The Lord shall smite thee with consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish".

Consumption, fever, inflammation, intensive burning and mildew are one and all the distinct symptoms of radiations sickness, and could be experienced both after atomic bomb assault and in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace. These symptoms will pursue mankind till the latter has disappeared from the earth.

(23) "And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron".

No doubt the heaven of this metallic age is brass, and its earth is iron.

(24) "The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed".

The rain of the powdery radiolgoical fallout of the atomic explosions from the heaven all over the face of the earth is no more a mere figurative expression but can be seen in this age as a true reality. Its hazard to the entire mankind, hazard that may amount to the complete extinction of life on earth is no longer a hidden secret. The destruction of health and life of mankind all over the earth is certain from this radiological hazard. The scientists have already warned mankind against it.

(26) "And thy carcass shall be meant unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away".

Millions indeed shall perish in the atomic wars, and millions more shall die of radiation sickness. The carcasses of the victims of the atomic war shall be left to be eaten by the fowls of the air and the beasts of the earth and none shall fray them away. The same shall happen in the case of the atomic-energy-for-peace. Ultimately in the age of atomic energy a time will arrive when people will succumb to the effects of radiations in millions, and none shall care for the dead".

(27) "The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with scab and with itch, whereof thou canst not be healed".

Warts, systs, cancers and malignant tumours are certainly caused by radiations, and there is no sure cure for cancer except by destroying it with radiations, and there is no sure cure for radiation sickness. Neither cancer nor radiation sickness can be healed in the true meanings of cure.

(28) "The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness and astonishment of heart".

Madness is the feature of the abnormal births caused be the recessive genes. Blindness too is caused by radiations, particularly the neutrons. The astonishment of the heart is a particular feature of this atomo-materialistic age. Wealth mania, and blindness as the cause of the present activities too are clearly noticeable.

(35) "The Lord shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head".

In the age of the atomic-energy-for-peace there shall be no dearth of men that shall be covered with ugly cancers from the sole of their foot to the top of their head. As a general expression it may mean redundancy of cancer.

(46) " (All these curses) shall be upon thee for a sign and for wonder, and upon thy seed for ever".

The effects of radiations will not be only on the generation that has been directly exposed to the radiation but shall be transmitted to the posterity. The curse of radiations itself may be transmitted to future generations.

(47) "Because thou servedst not the Lord, thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things".

It surely is due to the thought of plenty of all things that the remembrance of God is forgotten, and little joy is shown in the name of God.

(54) "So that the man that is tender among you and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and towards the remnant of his children which he shall have".

The greed and the overbearing stricture of the atomic age will set the brother against the brother, husband against the wife, and the parent against his children. The state of the things shall be for ever worsening.

(56) "The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, here eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son and toward her daughter".

(57) "And toward her young one to that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her young children which she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and the straightens, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates".

Domestic discord and mistrust is to be a special feature of the society in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace due to the genetic effects of radiations. Parental affection will vanish in genetic diseases and mutual apprehensions. A house in those days shall be just a little hell of discord and hatred. Recourse to cannibalism in the event of scarcity particularly when the motherly love for the child is involved may be considered as a horrid extremity, but dread the age of atomic energy when the distressed, disfigured and frustrated humanity may be expected to commit any kind of a heinous deed in sheer desperateness. Human race shall be changed into wrathful vultures. Leaving the horrid aspect of cannibalism aside, one thing which with utmost surety could be said about the radiation-ridden age of the atomic-energy-for-peace, is that women shall be most chary of giving birth to a child for fear of begetting a horrid monster. They shall be most willing rather eager to destroy the burden of their belly before the actual time of delivery has arrived. That shall be a cursed age.

(59) "Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sickness and of long duration".

Wonderful indeed are the plagues and pestilences of radiations, and are decidedly of long continuance. Further the posterity of the radiation-ridden generation too is going to suffer even great plagues of long continuance and sore sickness".

(61) "Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of law, them wealthy Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed".

Strange diseases and queer types of sickness that were unknown to the pre-atomic ages have appeared in the age of atomic radiations, that surely will destroy mankind.

(62) "And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou wouldst not obey the voice of the Lord, thy God".

The atomic wars and the atomic radiations will reduce the population of the world to a negligible few.

(63) "And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you; to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from of the land wither thou goest to possess it".

The execution of this denunciation now is visibly in sight. Mankind has been multiplied to a stupendous magnitude, and is most greedy of possession, but signs are that it will all come to nought. It wants but an atomic war to reduce this mankind considerably, or else the radiations in the age of atomic-energy-for-peace may achieve the end.

(66) "And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of thy life".

The life of man now hangs in doubt both individually and collectively. Any moment declaration of atomic war may bring every thing to an end, and such a declaration may be expected any moment. The life of every man individually will hang in doubt in the age of atomic energy. He shall always remain apprehensive of an attack of invisible atomic radiations, and he may actually be attacked by the atomic radiations any moment and become sick or die.

You have read these descriptions by Moses could you expect a better description of atomic hazards?

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