Is hinduism a peaceful religion?
World Religion Map
Click on the
religion map when you get to the website (above), and you will see where the various religions reside.
You can see a tiny dot where Jews are predominant. So, it is rather difficult to believe the Nazis, and radical Islamics who blame them for controlling and owning the world.
The map shows a huge Christian faith, even in the former Soviet (Russian, etc.) areas.
The recently expanding Muslim religion has taken over northern Africa, often slaughtering whole tribes in our modern era.
It is difficult to separate the actions of a country from the actions of the dominant religion in that country.
When Did Alexander the Great Invade India?
India has the largest percentage of Hindus in the world. It has long had a reputation for military strength. It
repelled Alexander the Great, while many other empires crumbled at his feet. Their elephants were daunting in war. (Source: above)
Actually, Al was Macedonian, not Greek (but the two were very close by....just like Iraq and the terrorists that W. Bush meant to attack.
India–Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead?
The hypertext link, above, says that the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that Pakistan (the aggressor against India) has about 160 nukes, and India 140.
I keep arguing with physics professors and military nuke experts about the existence of more nukes, and they insist that we know about all of them....followed a year or two later by "oops....we didn't see all of those." The military experts that I spoke with are my personal friends, and some told me that it is their job to analyze heat signatures from satellites to detect the decay of nuclear materials, and they found none. My response was that they could mask that heat. Their response was that they could not (with 20-20 hindsight, after the discovery of nukes....I was right, they were wrong).
My professors had to frequently stop teaching to go to military facilities to analyze possible nuclear facilities (refining ore, making nuke bomb parts, making nukes, missile silos, etc). They could recognize the tell-tale signs of nuclear weapons....but they always miss a lot.
According to the link above, India and Pakistan have had a lot of military skirmishes, and many of them almost resulted in nuclear war.
What would happen if a religious zealot, who believes that they will get 72 virgins in heaven if they nuke the world (as some Muslims do), has the ability to launch nukes and destroy all life on the planet?
SALT PACTS:
Most of the world cheered when Soviets and Americans had SALT pacts (Strategic Arms LImitation Talks). Those resulted in the destruction of various nukes (especially long range). The rest of the world, at the time, didn't have the ability to make nukes. Japan was still under rules imposed after WWII not to have weapons. Since then, the US graciously (and stupidly) lifted those sanctions.
Iraq (a peaceful nation that was thoroughly checked for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by UN and United States inspectors, was invaded by President W. Bush without cause. Now, after decades of fight Iraq, the US military is geared for minor skirmishes with minor, unarmed, third world nations, but not at all ready for an all out nuclear war with a super power. Part of a nuclear war includes rocket delivery. Lets face it, the US is using 1950's technology in the 2020's.
Recently (after the Covid pandemic), China took Hong Kong, Taiwan, and chased ships off of the China Sea (open ocean). Trump sent an air craft carrier, Putin (Russia) sided with Communist China and sent his own ship, and China fired mach 10 missiles over the top of the US ship, as a threat...and very palpable one. The US, at best, has mach 4 missiles.
So, while SALT limited the arms build up of the Soviets (and now former Soviets), and the US, the rest of the world caught up and surpassed us. While the US was building helicopters with machine guns, to fight Iraqis, Russia made its "Satan rockets," (as they dubbed them), and China, and a host of smaller nations built nukes.
W. Bush had threatened North Korea not to have nuclear power plants (to generate electricity for their people), because those could be used for nuclear wars. As a result, there was much friction, and the result was a build up of nuclear arms in North Korea. Californians were notified that North Korea can now reach their state with nuclear warheads. That was when the US had all those Orange Alerts that Tom Ridge (head of Homeland Security) said were phony.
So, despite the SALT pacts, the world is a much more dangerous place, and India (Hindus) are as much a nuclear power as the US, and heavily embroiled in threats and actions of war with Pakistan.
ISSUE OF UNITED STATES USING NUKES:
As President W. Bush continued using carpet bombs near major cities (which make
1/2 mile crators), Donald Rumsfeld said that there were no casualties. W. Bush and Rumsfeld were lying so that they could continue their useless wars (otherwise public opinion would side agaisnt them).
But, the carpet bombs, they thought, were not big enough. That is when President W. Bush said that "nukes are not off the table" and proposed bombing Iraq with nukes.
I wondered why the "nuclear clock" people had given President Bill Clinton such a hard time about nukes...moving the hands of their imaginary clock to 5 minutes before world destruction, yet didn't give a posturing and threatening warmonger like W. Bush any notice at all. So I wrote ot the "nuclear clock" people (who ran their website) and I asked them why they are not alarmed that W. Bush threatened to use nukes, and they wrote back to me and explained that they
could not object to W. Bush's use of nuclear bombs because that might discourage the use of nuclear bombs against Iraq (which they perceived as a counter attack for 911).
Thus, we see that
antinuclear activists are playing politics with nuclear bombs....allowing them for some, and disallowing them for others.
MAD (MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION)...IF THEY LAUNCH...WE LAUNCH....ALL DIE:
MAD deterred the use of nukes for decades, following the Rosenberg's uncle giving Soviets nuke tech. But MAD doesn't work very well now, because the US is so very far behind in nuke technology. Now, virtually any tiny nation may weild a mighty weapon and hold the whole world ransom.
China does anything that it wants....and who can stop them? Certainly not the US....the US is outgunned and outmanned.
India (Hindu), though they were a starving nation and not strong militarily, is now becoming a nuclear super-power, and threats of nuclear war persist beside the conventional war that they still pursue.