Ancient NUCLEAR WAR??
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Conspirators!
Today’s theory is that the two nuclear bombs dropped during WWII weren’t actually the first detonated on Earth. Further, theorists claim that there is evidence of an all-out ancient nuclear war...which means we’ve got Sanskrit war epics, desert glass, and Robert Oppenheimer to talk about. So sip that coffee and strap in. We’re starting in ancient India.
How about a glass of ice cold Fusion?
The Bhagavad-Gita, the great Indian war epic completed around the 2nd century BCE, is a mythic text. But the descriptions of the wars inside it have led to theories that these battles weren’t just stories.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, the “Book of Drona,” describes magical weapons called astra that could destroy entire armies, “causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of trees.” (That could just be describing any explosive, but wait, there’s more. Sooo much more.)
The most devastating astra was known as the brahmastra. It was depicted as a “single projectile charged with all the power in the universe...a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race. There was neither a counter attack nor a defense that could stop it.” (Now we’re getting closer to nuclear. If only there was something that described the mushroom-like cloud or toxic aftereffects, right? Keep reading, young ‘spirator, keep reading.)
The brahmastra was said to produce “an incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns that rose in all its splendor. After, corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white…After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected.”
Doesn’t that sound like Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Never trust an atom…they make up everything.
Now I know what you’re thinking. Okay, cool, an old story. Is that all you’ve got? Really?
Oh, we’ve got more. See, there’s a substance known as trinitite that forms when a nuclear blast turns sand into glass. It received the monicker from the Trinity team, who tested the first nuclear explosion in the United States. (Trinitite is often also referred to as desert glass, nuclear glass, and atomic glass.)
Albion Hart, an engineer on the Trinity team, first noticed and examined the trinitite. He claimed he’d seen identical material a decade earlier in the African desert. Further, he even noted that the amount he’d seen in Africa would have had to come from a blast 10 times the size of the Trinity bomb! But, alas, no one believed him at the time.
However, since then, trinitite has been discovered in neolithic, Sumerian, Babylonian, and ancient Egyptian archaeological sites in modern day Egypt, Libya, and Iraq. Trinitite was even found in the tomb of curse-enthusiast King Tut, decorating a necklace he wore...
Importantly, the glass found in Libya is estimated to be over 28 million years old. According to our calculator app, that’s uhh, really old.
Any other explanations for this? Yeah, if you’re boring.
Many scientists dismiss the ancient nuclear war theory, asserting that trinitite can also form from meteor blasts and lightning strikes.
However, it should be pointed out that meteor blast glass tends to bead up, and doesn’t look too much like the trinitite found after nuclear blasts. And if it was lightning, that’s quite a lot of strikes.
Before we move on, there’s a quote from Robert Oppenheimer, a member of the Trinity team that we found interesting. When he was asked whether the Trinity explosion was the first ever atomic detonation, Oppenheimer replied: “Yes, in modern times.” I don’t know, sounds like our guy Bobby O. was on board with this one.
Enjoy some conspiratorial dives on the topic
So I guess the question is...did an ancient, technologically-advanced civilization self-destruct into modern humanity’s Stone Age? Take some deep dives and find out:
Here’s a podcast on the topic by Conspiracy! The Show
Ancient Aliens explored this a bit, and I did you a favor and found the relevant clip on Youtube from the episode
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