Early on, Nikita Khruschev ordered up a bomb that would yield 100 megatons. The Soviets had already determined that it was theoretically possible to create a device that could approach a GIGATON yield, but due to the attendant complications including intolerable levels of radiation, they compromised on 100 megatons. Upon further calculations however, it was discovered that any airplane available for delivery back then would not survive such a powerful detonation, even with any and all precautions they might take. Eventually the design of the Tsar Bomba, the name given to this beast, was to be settled to deliver an absolutely unimaginable yield of 50 megatons. For comparison, the biggest nuclear explosion the US ever produced was the Castle Bravo test back in March, 1954 and weighed in at a mere 15 megatons, an incredible explosion of unbelievable destructive power that also left the Bikini Atoll poisoned by radiation and uninhabitable to this day.
Even at 50 Megatons, the airplane which would drop the Soviet weapon was calculated to have only a fifty percent chance of surviving the shock wave which would emanate from the explosion. Such a wave would travel fast enough to overtake the aircraft, even after taking such precautions as deploying a parachute to slow the fall of the bomb as much as possible and allow the plane to get as far as possible from the ground zero before the bomb exploded. The test was indeed conducted and the shock wave overtook the plane as expected, but due to expert piloting and the grace of God, after a fearsome one kilometer drop in altitude, the pilots were able to recover the craft and avoid crashing.
Human beings were never meant to undertake attempting to control nuclear power. Many believe there are beneficial peaceful uses of this phenomenon, but all things considered, nuclear fission and fusion are physical attributes of atomic interactions that would have been better left alone. As with all other scientific “discoveries” nuclear power was first analyzed for it’s potential military use. In other words, the governments had to determine its capacity to kill people, and with atomic bombs, there was a bonanza for militaries. Their concern for the well-being of the environment and the planet was also quite overtly demonstrated by the many atomic bomb tests that followed this remarkable scientific revelation.
Inhabitants of the Bikini Atoll in the south Pacific were relocated to foreign shores with the promise they would be able to return after the testing was completed. In an attempt at fulfillment of the promise, many residents were indeed returned many years later, only to be subsequently removed once again when it was discovered that they accumulated intolerable levels of radiation in their bodies from ecological radioactive contamination. The environment of the atoll had become toxic from long-lasting residual contamination through the food chain.
Nuclear power plants all around the world have “spent” rods sitting in cooling pools. When everyone thought it would be a good idea to harness nuclear power, it seems no one was interested to think it all through and arrive at a plan for nuclear waste disposal, so here we are, and all the time generating more and more waste. To add suspense to our predicament, the Ukranian Army has been trying since the Russians took control of the big nuclear power plant at Zaporizhya to bomb it and cause a nuclear incident that would threaten eastern Europe with radioactive fallout.
The one element of this discussion that frankly should concern homo sapiens, is that by now there are literally hundreds of ships on the oceans that are powered by nuclear reactors. The scary part is that these are almost all military ships. Did we learn anything from Three-Mile-Island; from Chernobyl; from Fukushima? We need to get real folks, because when the missiles and torpedoes start exploding all those nuclear reactors on all those ships, we’re going to render planet earth uninhabitable! If all those gallons of radioactive water leaking into Japanese waters is causing such a stir – and it’s still leaking – what’s going to happen to our oceans and gulfs and bays when the ocean floor is strewn with highly radioactive carcasses of submarines and aircraft carriers? [Revelation 8:10-11]: Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
Just what if that great star that fell from heaven was the knowledge of atomic power? After all, science holds that the stars are indeed powered by nuclear reactions, so what if that description of a star falling is a metaphor for mankind obtaining the knowledge of controlling nuclear energy, a knowledge we were not meant to possess?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists runs what they call the Doomsday Clock, as I’m sure most folks are aware, but it is used to reveal just how close the earth is to a nuclear war, thus our annihilation. The clock is now at some seconds before Armageddon and that means we, being the inhabitants of earth, might only be a few moments from total destruction. Personally, I don’t believe the whole planet will become incinerated, but if I read Revelation 18 correctly, I believe the modern Babylon being described therein is the United States, and that she will be completely destroyed by fire (in one hour). Even if Europe, Africa, and Asia survive, there will be tribulation for everyone going forward until such time as Jesus returns with justice for the rest of the world.
I do not believe mankind was ever intended to wield control of nuclear energy. It was brought about by Satan with the ultimate intention of the destruction of God’s creation. That is after all, where we are headed, but I believe Jesus will intervene before all is destroyed. Mankind is not capable of the wisdom required to be in possession of such destructive power, and it seems as if the least wise of all of us are in the precise positions of power to bring Satan’s plan about. We collectively have too many faults and desires of this world to have such weapons and we have a front row seat to watch as the least capable of all humans have their hands on the button – at least in our own country.
Pray for them, pray that God will give them Divine guidance, or I fear we are in for some seriously bad times ahead.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us in these troubled times.