A World Free From Wars
“War ! That mad game the world so much loves to”
-Swift
Man is a fighting animal .There have been wars since time immemorial .Science is
certainly not the cause of wars .But the inventions of modern science have
changed the nature of war .Science has made modern war much more destructive
and horrible.
Science ,no doubt ,has given numerous useful gifts to mankind .Humanity is
greatly indebted to science for its blessings .But science is unscrupulous hands in
a curse .It has vested man with the powers of the God ,which ,when used in an
improper direction ,can cause misery and destruction .It can be both ,mother as
well as step mother. It is not , therefore ,an unmixed blessings .Although it has
provided us with a thousand comforts ,yet it has filed to bring happiness to our
homes .Power-hungry men of the world have expoited science to use it in warfare
.It has given them the weapons which can put the whole world to an end in the
twinkling of an eye .War ,today ,has become a thousand times more bloody and
killing than the greatest war ever fought on the Earth .But ,is science to be blamed
for this? No , it is man whose wrong use of this power has brought ruin and
misery for this fellow being.
In the beginning of the world , man used to fight with the help of stones and
sticks .A little later ,they started using bows and arrows .The bows and arrows
were replaced by swords ,axes ,daggers ,and spears .Horses and elephants were
used to carry the fighting soldiers .Whenever there was a war ,not more than a
few hundred persons were killed or wounded on either side .As civilization
advanced further ,wars became more and more horrible .With the advance of
science ,gun powder was invented .Guns and cannons now came to be used .
Aeroplanes made the movement of soldiers easy and quick .This made wars quite
terrible .Wars now started talking a heavy toll of life and property.
Modern science has made things even worse .Today man is equipped with
dangerous weapons of destruction .He can cause large scale deaths and
devastation .The atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second
World War spelt doom and disaster on the two cities .The two cities were
completely destroyed .Thousands lost their lives ;property worth millions was
reduced to ashes .
All this has taught no lesson to man .If ,God forbids ,a world war breaks to be
fought by humanity .Nobody will be left alive to fight another war .The third
World War would mean a total extinction of humanity .Can't have a world free
from wars?
In the context of this possibility only ,the leaders of the world are now working for
the destruction or delimitation of these giants of destruction America and Russia
have agreed to cut down their stockpiles of nuclear weapons .A lot ,however ,
remains to be done.
The mighty weapons are hanging on the head of the world like the sword of
Damocles .We cannot imagine the horrors of a modern wars .Let the war-
mongers realize the consequences of the Third World War .It is high time they
take a vow never to wage a war .Let them make this world heave of peace ,free
from wars .They should act upon Panchshul[Five Principles of Co-existence].In
them and them alone lies the progress and salvation of mankind .
We can only pray with Lord Tennyson:--
“Let the knowledge grow from more to more;
And more of wisdom in us dwell
That mind and soul proclaiming well,
My make one music as before .”
Saniya V-E