There suddenly was a sound in the sky not like a plane or thunder or anything else ever heard before. People start to look up and they see it. It’s cylindrical with a point at the end and has a grayish appearance.
“It’s coming! I see it coming! Help!” one man screamed and started to run. Before he knew it, he and everyone else remotely around him was burned, scorched, and dead to a degree where they became just fragments of bone and skin. “What’s coming?” you ask. Well, it’s the most deadly weapon the world has ever seen, the hydrogen bomb.
This was November 1, 1952, only five years ago, when the United States detonated the first successful hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. This bomb yielded more than 10 megatons of TNT in a five-kilogram fireball. Exactly six months later, the USSR successfully exploded a hydrogen bomb of theirs. Three years ago, on March 4, 1954, the first dry hydrogen bomb was tested at Bikini atoll, producing a 20 megatons explosion and exposing many Japanese fishermen and islanders to deadly levels of radiation. These deadly weapons are so far the most dangerous weapons on the face of this earth. Albert Einstein once said, “We don’t know what they will use in WWIII, but we know that in WWIV, they will be using sticks and stones.” What he meant is clear, that the destructive force of hydrogen bombs or a nuclear war would completely destroy our civilization and human life would have to start again from the very beginning.
Earlier this year, both the United States and the USSR admitted to having workable intercontinental ballistic missiles. Questions that come to our mind are “What if one of these were to go off?” “What will happen if that happens?” One man by the name of Steven Jacobs replied, “Nothing’s going to happen after that because we’d all be dead.” Is Jacobs right? Expert Andrew Littman says, “Yes, we would all be dead because if the initial impact doesn’t kill you, then the radioactivity sooner or later will.”
Now let’s take a trip down the memory lane. Two years ago, on August 6, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and then three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. During an interview with Mr. Akio Sakita, he remembers back to that day and says, “The ground was strewn with countless numbers of corpses burned black and red and almost naked.”
Another man, Sago Yoshiru recounts, “An indescribable stench wafted on the air. I walked over the grass in my bare feet, ignoring the pain as the splinters penetrated my skin.” Everybody that survived this experience believes they are lucky and prays about those who weren’t so fortunate.
Think approximately it this way: the hydrogen bomb is 100-1000 times worse than the atomic bomb. If about 150,000 people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, imagine how many people will die from the hydrogen bomb. There won’t be time to run, scream, and pray for your life before you are engulfed in a massive fireball. Mrs. Nias Soyagen only has one wish, and that is “to see a world where we can live without the threat of a nuclear war.”
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