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    Mutually Assured Destruction: Has it Happened Before?

    Some believed that advanced civilizations existed on earth in the very distant past. And they destroyed themselves. How long would it take for most evidence disappear in nature? (Wasn't there a TV show on that?)

    Mutually Assured Destruction: Has it Happened Before? - Historic Mysteries

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    Back in the USSR

    When the Eastern Bloc collapsed in 1991 the whole world breathed a sigh of relief. The decades-old threat of a global nuclear war seemed to have passed. Yet what if the East-West rivalry had not ended with a whimper? What if it had ended with a bang?


    Considering the destructive potential of the atomic arsenals produced and stockpiled by the superpowers, our world could well have been reduced to irradiated charcoal by thermonuclear war had the United States and Soviet Union decided to settle their differences in this fashion. The human race easily could have been annihilated, and Mother Earth left in a state too radioactive to support higher life forms for tens of thousands of years.



    Could it have happened before? The signs are not that hard to read for those willing to interpret them for what they seem to be.


    Physical Clues from Past and Present

    “Tektite” is not a word with which many people are familiar. It is a scientific term, and it describes one of those erratics that bedevil prevailing attitudes. Tektites are not well known outside the scientific establishment, but they far predate today’s science.


    When sand is superheated the individual grains fuse into glass. This process is called vitrification. When the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexico desert in 1945 its heat melted the desert sand into millions of small, glassy fragments.


    Some of the scientists who examined this nuclear debris were stunned to find it familiar. It looked identical to the baffling artifacts called tektites that for centuries have been found all over the world. The land areas in the vast region stretching from Tasmania to north of the Philippines to the East Indies to East Africa are littered with tektites. Analysis of these objects reveals they are approximately 700,000 years old.


    Although they had long been assumed to be meteorites there was the question of why, if of extraterrestrial origin, none have fallen in recent times? Why did they shower onto such an immense area 700 millennia ago, and then stop forever?




    Furthermore, nearly all meteorites are composed of iron or stone–not glass. The 1945 New Mexico atomic test may provide a clue. Considering the lack of any other plausible explanation, could it be that the tektites covering so much of the Pacific basin and East Africa were blasted aloft by nuclear explosions and then rained back down onto this huge area?


    Elsewhere in the world there is similar evidence.


    The Burning Desert

    It would appear the Middle East being a tinderbox is nothing new. The entire desert between Damascus, Syria and Baghdad, Iraq is littered with charred, heat-blackened rocks. Literally thousands of square miles of Mesopotamia must have at one time have been subjected to tremendous heat, and this is not a volcanic region.





    Such stones have been found in Australia, France, India, South Africa and Chile. They are composed mainly of aluminum and beryllium, and analysis shows them to have been exposed not only to extreme heat, but also powerful doses of radioactivity. Other non-volcanic areas seem to have suffered the same fate.


    North of Beirut, Lebanon there is the ancient city of Baalbek. In ruins since Biblical times, the conurbation was dedicated to the worship of the sun god Baal. Archeologists have dug up tektites in Baalbek, and many of the huge stone platforms (long assumed to be in some way connected to Baal worship) built by the city’s long-ago inhabitants, are vitrified.


    This raises the question of could Baalbek’s population have been wiped out by atomic warfare, and the stone platforms vitrified by this. Or were the stones used themselves as launching pads for nuclear bomb-carrying missiles?


    The standard explanation for the partial melting of these rock structures is that they were struck by lightning. The problem here is that for this to occur it would take many lightning bolts striking the same spot.


    Lightning is a rare occurrence in the arid Middle East, and if this were the answer one would think we would be familiar with the process. Why is it not still happening? This is especially relevant considering that instances of vitrification are worldwide.


    Here, There and Everywhere

    Vast areas of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are vitrified. Scattered throughout northern Europe and the British Isles are stone forts and towers so old there are not even any legends to account for them. Many of these structures are vitrified.


    Outside Cuzco, Peru there is a vitrified hillside covering 18,000 square yards (15,000 square meters). The Indian epic Mahabharata dates back over 3,000 years and describes a battle scene in which a “blazing missile” was shot into the midst of an army and produced “a radiance of smokeless fire” that instantly immolated chariots, men, elephants, forests and caused rivers to boil. The passage in question is downright sobering:

    “It was as if the elements had been unleashed. The sun spun round. Scorched by the incandescent heat of the weapon, the world reeled in fever. Elephants were set on fire by heat and ran to and fro in a frenzy to seek protection from the terrible violence. The water boiled, the animals died, the enemy was mown down and the raging of the blaze made the trees collapse in rows as in a forest fire. The elephants made a fearful trumpeting and sank dead to the ground over a vast area. Horses and war chariots were burnt up, and the scene looked like the aftermath of a conflagration. Thousands of chariots were destroyed, then deep silence descended on the sea. The winds began to blow, and the Earth grew bright. It was a terrible sight to see. The corpses of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat so that they no longer looked like human beings. Never before have we seen such a ghastly weapon, and never before have we heard of such a weapon.”


    There is no way of knowing how long before Mahabharata was written that this incident, with its echoes of Hiroshima, took place, but the real question is how could the ancients have known how to perfectly describe an atomic blast if they had not actually witnessed it? If there were witnesses who later described these events they would seem to have been quite fortunate to have survived the great burning. It is likely that the reason for the paucity of accounts of how vitrification occurred is that few survived to tell the tale.


    Many pre-Inca ruins in South America are vitrified. The fate of the civilization(s) that constructed such impressive ruins as Sacsayhuaman and Tiahuanaco has long been a subject of debate. Could they have been exterminated by a thermonuclear holocaust that partially melted their huge stone cities, hence providing much-later investigators with a solitary clue as to the fate of these primordial cultures. Such finds occur elsewhere in the New World.


    There are the ruins of a prehistoric town in Death Valley, California. The same vitrified rocks and sand are present, and today’s technology could only produce such heat through the use of atomic weapons or laser beams.


    Throughout the vicinity of this cremated community no grass will grow. Overall, it appears someone with an extremely advanced technology laid waste to a great deal of Earth’s surface long, long ago. By returning to primeval India we find evidence that this war was aerial as well as terrestrial.


    Another Indian classic from millennia ago recounts how three “floating cities” were destroyed by what sounds uneasily like nuclear missiles. Known as the Drona Parva, it contains this unsettling passage:




    “Formerly the valiant Asuras had in heaven three cities. Each of these cities was excellent and large. One was made of iron, another of silver, and a third of gold. The golden city belonged to Kamaloksha, the silver city to Tarakaksha, and the third made of iron had Vidyunmalin for its Lord. When, however, the three cities came together in the firmament the Lord Mahadeva pierced them with that terrible shaft of his consisting of three knots. The Danavas were unable to gaze at that shaft inspired with the Yuga fire and composed of Vishnu and Soma.”


    Exploration of India reveals clues that support these primordial accounts. A 19th Century British explorer named DeCamp was traveling through the region between the Ganges River and the mountainous area of Rajmahal when he came across stone ruins he described as having been melted to the point they were fused together “like lumps of tin struck by a stream of molten steel.”


    Another Englishman, named J. Campbell, found ancient ruins south of Rajmahal of a vitrified stone floor that appeared to have once been an internal courtyard. There was no sign of any building that may have covered the courtyard. If one had ever been there it apparently was burned away completely.

    ***


    Although India seems to have been the center of this hypothetical prehistoric thermonuclear holocaust (or perhaps it is just that more written accounts from India survived), the clues of its destruction are worldwide. Furthermore, who can say whether all these artifacts date from the same period?


    Armageddon may have already occurred, and more than once. Did earlier civilizations exterminate themselves? We have the legends of the lost societies of Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria. Could they have obliterated themselves, obliterated each other, or been obliterated by outside (perhaps extraterrestrial) forces so long ago that not only do we have the barest (albeit unmistakable) evidence of their existence and passing, but also the radioactive contamination of their global war has had time to dissipate?
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    I do believe that we have done all of this before. I have been meaning to make a thread on it but haven't got around to it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    I do believe that we have done all of this before. I have been meaning to make a thread on it but haven't got around to it.
    Well, here you go!
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    The idea that humans lived in caves for 300k or so years, and one morning Og said to Grog “Let’s go build a pyramid!” is ridiculous.
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    I have wondered about this myself. Civilization rises, gets techinical enough to destroy themselves and does, rinse and repeat

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    Lasers from space? Nah. Can't happen.

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