First the earth, trees and grass. Then the sea, life in the sea and the ships are burnt by fire, or poisoned by ‘blood’. Nuclear explosives are exploded at a height of approximately four hundred metres for atomic A-bombs or at four thousand metres for hydrogen H-bombs in order to achieve a wide radius of destruction. Using such explosives, fire is literally thrown down on earth in the form of X- and gamma rays. This immediate heat ray, which vaporises rocks and gases living organisms, is the first secondary effect of the explosion. Thereafter follows the air pressure like a giant storm. The strongly radioactive by-products as a result of atomic fission (radio-isotopes) or nuclear fusion appear immediately when the explosion takes place. This radioactive precipitation works like a poison, especially in the blood. These substances are absorbed in the blood through food and mucous membranes, as a result of which they then end up in the bones and the internal organs, resulting in the destruction of cells, infection of the blood and malignant, and cancerous growths. This radioactivity spread itself through the atmosphere to cover large surfaces and the pouring rain brings it down to the top layer of the earth’s surface. In the top ten centimetres it will be absorbed by the plants, especially grass, and also by the trees. The nuclear disaster in the Chernobyl reactor caused the poisoning of spinach and other green vegetables and made it necessary to carefully examine grass (especially that eaten by dairy cows that were producing milk for people to drink) over large areas. Chernobyl was a small ‘accident’ compared to real atomic explosions! When a hydrogen bomb with an energy content of 1016 calories vaporises a mass of water of 10 million cubic metres, it appears in or above the sea like a fiery half sphere, surrounded by red-hot steam (‘something like a great mountain’) with a height of several kilometres. Vessels of any fleet, whether they be merchant ships or navy ships, will stand absolutely no chance. Neither would they be able to withstand the tidal waves that occur. Thus even ships well outside the immediate vicinity of the blast will perish.
It is not surprising that great demonstrations against the expansion of these weapons are held in the Netherlands, and elsewhere too, and that many people follow the laborious negotiations to cut back this kind of weapons in the East and the West with great interest. The world had a foretaste of the terrible consequences when a few ‘small’ bombs were exploded above Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of WWII. If these weapons were ever again really be used, everyone realises that life on our planet will become virtually impossible. But the worst is to be feared as long as man’s heart is evil and remains evil. For a worldwide repentance and change of heart is not expected in Scripture. But worldwide proclamation of the Gospel of the Kingdom will happen, and is happening!
• The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident. It occurred on 25–26 April 1986 in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukraine, approximately 104 km (65 miles) north of Kiev.
• The Chernobyl accident is considered the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, both in terms of cost and casualties. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011
• On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
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