Ancient Nuclear Weapons (Indus Valley)
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Ancient Atom Bombs
Fact, Fraud, and the Myth of Prehistoric Nuclear Warfare
Contents
I. The Myth of Ancient Atomic Warfare
1
II. The First Ancient Atomic Bomb Theories
4
III. The Tesla Death Ray
13
IV. Big Theories, No Evidence
16
V. What It All Means
20
Works Cited
24
ANCIENT ATOM BOMBS? ● 1
I. The Myth of Ancient Atomic Warfare
I
N FEBRUARY 2008, GLOBAL DIGNITARIES gathered to inaugurate the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a repository for plant life designed to withstand nuclear war so survivors could restart civilization with healthy seeds. Magnus Bredeli-Tveiten, who oversaw construction of the vault, told the Associated Press that he expected it to last as long as the 4,500-year-old pyramids of Egypt. However, for a certain percentage of the public, ancient civilizations like Egypt are just one key to a nuclear war that already happened--thousands of years ago.
Believers maintain that in the distant past either extraterrestrials or a lost civilization like Atlantis detonated nuclear weapons, producing terrible devastation. This disaster was recorded, they say, in the Bible, Hindu scriptures, and world mythologies. Sodom and Gomorrah felt the sting of nuclear weapons when “the L ORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah --from the LORD out of the heavens.” (Genesis 19:24-25, New International Version).
An ancient Indian epic was said (erroneously, as we shall see) to describe a “single projectile charged with all the power of the universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as ten thousand suns rose in all its splendor.” To believers, these sound like eyewitness accounts of nuclear bombs being dropped from above. To skeptics, these sound like imaginative interpretations of the equivalent of prehistoric science fiction.
2 ● JASON COLAVITO
No mainstream scientist or historian endorses the idea of prehistoric atomic bombs,
A tom Bombs
Ancient Atom Bombs
Fact, Fraud, and the Myth of Prehistoric Nuclear Warfare
Contents
I. The Myth of Ancient Atomic Warfare
1
II. The First Ancient Atomic Bomb Theories
4
III. The Tesla Death Ray
13
IV. Big Theories, No Evidence
16
V. What It All Means
20
Works Cited
24
ANCIENT ATOM BOMBS? ● 1
I. The Myth of Ancient Atomic Warfare
I
N FEBRUARY 2008, GLOBAL DIGNITARIES gathered to inaugurate the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a repository for plant life designed to withstand nuclear war so survivors could restart civilization with healthy seeds. Magnus Bredeli-Tveiten, who oversaw construction of the vault, told the Associated Press that he expected it to last as long as the 4,500-year-old pyramids of Egypt. However, for a certain percentage of the public, ancient civilizations like Egypt are just one key to a nuclear war that already happened--thousands of years ago.
Believers maintain that in the distant past either extraterrestrials or a lost civilization like Atlantis detonated nuclear weapons, producing terrible devastation. This disaster was recorded, they say, in the Bible, Hindu scriptures, and world mythologies. Sodom and Gomorrah felt the sting of nuclear weapons when “the L ORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah --from the LORD out of the heavens.” (Genesis 19:24-25, New International Version).
An ancient Indian epic was said (erroneously, as we shall see) to describe a “single projectile charged with all the power of the universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as ten thousand suns rose in all its splendor.” To believers, these sound like eyewitness accounts of nuclear bombs being dropped from above. To skeptics, these sound like imaginative interpretations of the equivalent of prehistoric science fiction.
2 ● JASON COLAVITO
No mainstream scientist or historian endorses the idea of prehistoric atomic bombs,
References: in ancient times due to a nuclear blast. However, the authors’ 1979 book, 2000 a.C brought to the attention of the other side of the Iron Curtain through The Morning of the Magicians (1960), a French work by Louis Pauwels popularized by Swiss hotelier Erich von Däniken in the 1960s and ’70s with his book Chariots of the Gods? (1968), its sequels, and movie adaptation as In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973), narrated by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame Von Däniken argued in Chariots of the Gods? (1968) that atom bombs destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, the biblical cities of sin: