From the beginning of February this year, all the media were full of fears of war and finally a fierce battle broke out in the last week.
How ironic is it that the leading countries producing nuclear weapons also teach the world the lesson of disarmament, hold conventions on it and if a new country comes forward in this direction, then they do not hesitate to attack it. Violence and war have been almost inevitable throughout the history of human civilization. With time man understood their ill effects, but could never get rid of them.
From the beginning of February this year, all the media were full of fears of war and finally a fierce battle broke out in the last week. On the fourth day of the war, Russia also alerted its nuclear weapons unit. This increased the concern of the whole world that will there be a great destruction now? The figures of which country has how many nuclear weapons started repeating.
Whatever be the result of this war, but once again it has become clear that man has learned to use the knowledge acquired by his intellectual ability, effort and skill acquired through hard work and progress in science and technology, Learned to abuse him even more! Perhaps analyzing all this, Bertrand Russell wrote that if man continues only to acquire more and more knowledge, then he will perish on earth. His way of survival is through the cultivation of wisdom and discernment with knowledge!
Does the current state of the world not confirm this statement, in which the arms race has been accepted as normal and necessary? The research expenditure on making these more antidote is constantly increasing in the desire of how my weapons should be better than others, that is, how to make the dahle on the bath! As long as there is success here, the competitor has made even better! The dahla again becomes a bath, again the same thing is repeated. No organized effort has been able to stop it. In the twentieth century, most of the countries that could get rid of subjugation, moved towards adopting democracy.
All accept the desire for peace. The United Nations (now United Nations) was established after suffering the brunt of two world wars, so that there would be no further war. One of its most important parts became the Security Council. Imperialism may have reached its destiny, but the cleverness of the imperialists did not diminish. Initially the Security Council had four permanent members with veto power, later China was included in it. That is, only one of these permanent members can reject any motion. What can be a bigger joke with the spirit of democracy?
Is this the sign of human civilization, development and progress in the third decade of the twenty first century? Would any class of rational human beings consider it reasonable and reasonable to continue increasing the number of nuclear weapons, knowing that the number of nuclear weapons the world has produced can destroy the earth hundreds of times? It is clear that when this number increases, the market for all types of weapons will increase, their sales will increase only when wars continue. And when they are not happening, then his fears of them happening will continue to increase!
Man is the only animal who creates problems for himself. His specialty is that he finds their solution too. The creation of the atomic bomb was made possible by a thorough study and analysis of Einstein’s energy-mass formula. The practical possibility of obtaining unlimited energy from a ‘controlled chain reaction’ by nuclear fission and making an atomic bomb became apparent in 1939. When scientists in America came to know that the Nazis were working in this direction on the orders of Hitler and if they were successful then no one would be able to stop them from causing a great destruction, they requested Einstein to write a letter to the US President Roosevelt that Research should be encouraged in this direction.
This letter was written on 2nd August 1939 after intense deliberation. Even Einstein himself had by then correctly predicted the magnitude of a possible atom bomb and was concerned. President Roosevelt thanked Einstein for the suggestion and reported the approval of $6,000 for research on it. Finally, on July 16, 1945, the first nuclear explosion was carried out at Las Alamos, and then on August 6 and August 9, 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then till today man has not been able to recover from the dangers of nuclear energy.
Albert Einstein, rich in talent and personality, had made his unique place in the scientific world. He was also known for his humility. He went to Prague University for a lecture before going to America for the first time in 1919. Then a person forcefully reached to meet him at the railway station. He said that his formula could be used to make horrific explosives.
Hearing this Einstein was distraught and he said sharply that ‘don’t tell me what can and cannot be done with that formula’. The most important sentence in this episode was- ‘I tell you that no one will ever use my formula to make explosives.’ Rich in a civilized, cultured and restrained personality, Einstein was a strong supporter of permanent world peace. His formula was grossly misused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And it hasn’t stopped till today.
How ironic is it that the leading countries producing nuclear weapons also teach the world the lesson of disarmament, hold conventions on it and if a new country comes forward in this direction, then they do not hesitate to attack it. The future of the world still hangs in the balance, which Einstein had expressed in 1950. The whole world is watching this today in the form of Russian attack on Ukraine.
According to the figures of the year 2020, the volume of world arms trade has exceeded five hundred and fifty billion dollars. Can this business run without war? Can the present situation be possible without changing the attitude in establishing peace in the world? The answer is only one – no! The concept of development on which the world is running has originated from the West. Before five hundred years, Europeans started moving out of their country’s borders. He explored many countries and took up the task of civilizing the people there and saving their souls! There is no debate on where the natives of countries like North America, Australia, New Zealand went, how they went. They have still not been able to get rid of the loot that these countries had done for centuries.
The essence of Western civilization was recognized by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in ‘Hind Swaraj’ in 1909 itself. The biggest challenge facing the world at present is: the discovery and widespread acceptance of the exploitation-free and ethical concept of development at the national and global levels. The need is that the enlightened and rational section of the world should accept its responsibility and after thinking deeply on it, present an alternative.