Prabhupada on A-bomb

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I don't know if it is Krishna Katha, but Srila Prabhupada's comments on

Hitler's knowledge of atomic bomb is making some news:

And Srila Prabhupada's comments are below that:

 

http://www.rense.com/general67/abomb.htm

Eyewitness - Germans Tested A-Bomb In October, 1944

'I Saw Nazis Test A-bomb' - Author Rewrites History

By John Hooper in Rome

The Guardian - UK

10-1-5

 

A book published in Italy is set to reignite a smouldering controversy over

how close the Nazis came to manufacturing a nuclear device in the closing

stages of World War II.

 

The author, Luigi Romersa, 88, is the last known witness to what he and some

historians believe was the experimental detonation of a rudimentary weapon

on an island in the Baltic in 1944.

 

Hitler's nuclear program has become a subject of intense dispute in recent

months, particularly in Germany. An independent historian, Rainer Karlsch,

met a barrage of hostility when he published a study containing evidence

that the Nazis had got much further than previously believed.

 

On October 12, 1944, Romersa, then a 27-year-old war correspondent, was

taken to the island of Rugen, where he watched the detonation of what his

hosts called a "disintegration bomb".

 

"They took me to a concrete bunker with an aperture of exceptionally thick

glass. There was a slight tremor in the bunker; a sudden, blinding flash,

and then a thick cloud of smoke. It took the shape of a column and then that

of a big flower.

 

"The officials there told me we had to remain in the bunker for several

hours because of the effects of the bomb. When we eventually left, they made

us put on a sort of coat and trousers which seemed to me to be made of

asbestos and we went to the scene of the explosion.

 

"The effects were tragic. The trees around had been turned to carbon. No

leaves. Nothing alive. There were some animals - sheep - in the area and

they too had been burnt to cinders."

 

When he wrote of his experiences after the war, "everyone said I was mad".

By then, it was universally accepted that Hitler's scientists had been years

away from testing a nuclear device.

 

However, documents published recently by Mr Karlsch and a US scholar, Mark

Walker, have punctured this consensus. Russian archives have shown one of

the German scientists lodged a patent claim for a plutonium bomb as early as

1941 and, in June, the two historians published an article in Physics World

that included what they said was the first diagram of one of the bombs

Hitler's scientists were trying to build, a device that exploited both

fission and fusion.

 

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Srila Prabhupada's comments from Folio:

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Morning Walk - November 20, 1975, Bombay

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Dr. Patel: How they smuggled away the secret of atom smashing from America,

these Russians?

Prabhup€da: Hm?

Dr. Patel: They smuggled away the secret of atom bomb from America.

Prabhup€da: The Germans.

Dr. Patel: No, the Russians smuggled away. Germans came to America, taking

that...

Prabhup€da: They understood from the Germans.

Dr. Patel: Yes, sir, but it is said that the German scientist ran away to

America because they were afraid of Hitler. If Hitler gets the secret of

atom, he would bomb out the whole world.

Prabhup€da: No, no. Hitler knew it.

Dr. Patel: No. They were not able to be successful to...

Prabhup€da: No, no. He knew it, everything, but he did not like to do it. He

said. He said. He was gentleman. But these people are not gentlemen. He knew

it perfectly well. He said that "I can smash the whole world, but I do not

use that weapon." The Germans already discovered. But out of humanity they

did not use it. And all the, your American, other countries, they have

stolen from German ideas.

Dr. Patel: I think, sir, German scientists ran away during the wartime to

America.

Prabhup€da: Yes. Some of them went to Russia, some of them-(aside) Hare

KŠa—to America.

Brahm€nanda: The German scientists, they went to America. But the plans for

these things were left in Germany and the Russians came. The Russians got

the plans, the Americans got the scientists.

Dr. Patel: I see. So the Russians, I mean, scientists produced from the plan

the bomb.

Brahm€nanda: That's why the Americans got it first, because they had the

scientists.

Dr. Patel: But that man was caught from America giving away secret to the

Russians. He was electrocuted, no? The science does not belong to a single

race or a nation.

Prabhup€da: No, more scientists were there in Germany.

Dr. Patel: They say Germany could produce more scientists because they had

all our, our Vedas and all our secret ancient books with them, the Sanskrit.

They had read them.

Prabhup€da: That is also fact.

Dr. Patel: And one ®a‰kar€c€rya—I don't know which—who was the professor in

one of the colleges of Madras, he went and met Professor Einstein and talked

about... And then he gave out some, one loka of two lines which actually

depicted how atoms could be smashed. That is in our sciences.

Indian man (2): This is fact?

Dr. Patel: Yes, it's a fact. (Hindi)

Prabhup€da: [break] ...ago, there was one Mr. Badhuri in Benares. He was a

great astrologer. So he told me that from Benares the Germans have taken

three books: one is Ak€a-patola, one is Kapota-vahi and his Khapoda-vahi.

Khapoda-vahi, this airplane. Kha means akasa. And there is another science,

kapota-vahi, to carry man by the pigeons. That is not yet displayed.

Kapota-vahi. And there is another, Akasa-patola. Any, any, even your chairs

you sit down; by mantra it will go on.

Dr. Patel: We have in Mah€bh€rata, that, I mean, Bhima threw away those

elephants and rowing in the sky. And when Par…kit thought "How could it

be?" then that elephants came down in the story. That means they were rowing

about just like sputniks of today, perhaps. I don't know how they might

have...

Prabhup€da: No, three books they have taken. They paid some eight lakhs of

rupees. That Mr. Badhuri told me. (aside) Hare KŠa.

 

Morning Walk - November 20, 1975, Bombay