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Charles Berlitz, who is not perhaps the most scholarly of authors, in

his book "Doomsday 1999" cites

Robert Oppenheimer (of the Manhattan Project)

as answering an inquiry from a student at Rochester University thus:

 

Student: Was the bomb exploded at Alamogordo during the Manhattan

Project the first one to be

detonated?

 

Dr. Oppenheimer: "Well -- yes. In modern times, of course.

 

"Berlitz goes on to quote a number of passages from the Mahabharata

that describe the impact of a

weapon that I suspect must be the brahmaastra, although he neither

names the weapon nor cites those

sections of the text from which his quotations are drawn (he lists

Protap Chandra Roy's translation of

1889 in his bibliography):...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......it was an unknown weapon, An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic

messenger of death, Which

reduced to ashes. The Entire race of the Vrishnis and the

Andhakas....the corpses were so burned As

to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke

without apparent cause, And the birds

turned white. After a few hours All foodstuffs were infected......To

escape from this fireThe soldiers

threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment...

 

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The Discovery of Dwarka:

Discovered in 1981, the well-fortified township of

Dwarka extended more than

half a mile from the shore and was built in six

sectors along the banks of a river

before it became submerged.

The findings are of immense cultural and religious

importance to India.

Among the objects unearthed that proved Dwarka's

connection with the

Mahabharata epic was a sea engraved with the image of

a three-headed

animal.The epic mentions such a seal given to the

citizens of Dwarka as a proof

of identity when the city was threatened by King

Jarasandha of the powerful

Magadh kingdom (now Bihar).The foundation of boulders

on which the city's

walls were erected proves that the land was reclaimed from the sea

about 3,600 years ago. The epic has

references to such reclamation activity at Dwarka. Seven islands

mentioned in it were also discovered

submerged in the Arabian Sea.