Man is a fighting animal. Perhaps man’s very first
invention was a simple weapon like a stone tied to a stick. In the middle Ages
more and more deadly methods of killing were invented. Man in’. Anted guns for
killing his enemy up to a distance of many miles. Le weapons appear almost
harmless when compared to the Atom and Hydrogen bombs of today. These bombs can
destroy big cities in the twinkling of an eye. The atom bomb thro on the city
of Hiroshima (Japan) in 1945 turned it into ruins; flames rose up to the world.
5,000 feet and 80,000 people were killed in a few minutes time. Even today an
armament race is going on between different power blocs and the shadows of a
new world war are always hovering over.
Wars destroy not only innumerable lives and proper
but also morals, traditions, culture and civilization of mankind. In olden days
one man fought against the other. And it was always the stronger one who won
the fight. Today undivided bravery is not a deciding factor. Even a small sized
man may go up in an aero plane and destroy a city of the bravest men. He can hit
the enemy from a distance of hundreds of miles with the help of rockets. There
is war on land, war on sea and war in the air. Every city becomes a target of
bombardment. Tanks and mechanized units cause death and destruction on land.
Civil populations, suffer Haley losses, while soldiers fight for months in the
trenches. Without even the bare necessities of life. During the First World War
there was food shortage in England. And at a later stage, also in Germany. In
war times co population too has to make big sacrifices. All their savings go
to the area and their economic progress is stopped. Because there is a constant
danger of air-raids. In the Sion-Japanese war, which ended in 1949, thousands
of Chinese were killed h lap. Bombs and many beautiful cities were destroyed.
Again, the ruthless warfare practices by Germans in the last resulted in the
sinking of thousands of merchant and passenger ships.
In wars thousands of soldiers fighting on the front
are arrested. These prisoners of war are handled in the cruellest way.
Submarines, destroyers and battleships are employed for destructive purposes on
the sea. The aerial warfare is still more destructible. Bombs are dropped from
the air, and in a short time railway lines, industrial centres, places of worship.
And huge buildings are reduced to ashes. The attack of enemy bombers and
fighters is followed by the hoot of sirens and the roar of airlift guns. People
rush into underground air-raid shelters and face great difficulties.
Modern warfare is a deliberate mass murder because
the enemy aims at killing as any people as possible. The after-effects of wars
prove still more deadly. Wars also ha e a very bad effect on the economy of the
country. Hunger, disease and misers follow. Every’ war. Crops are destroyed and
the next generation is ill-led and diseased. The poisonous gases of bombs cause
strange diseases as the finest youth of the nation die in the war, the next
generation is bred and brought up by crippled and sickly people, and these
after-effects of wars are very dangerous. Thus, wars give mankind nothing huts
widows, taxes. Wooden legs and debts. Civilization begins a-new after every war
and all the achievements of peace are lost in a short time.