New Delhi, India, on May 27, 2008: Tryst with God – Swamy Raj – Series 14 - Released by Federation of God Believers. This series gives a story on gross inhuman disaster, how the first Atomic Bomb was thrown over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th, and 9th, 1945 respectively, taken from the pages of Swamy Raj Baldev’s Autobiography, how he felt the jerk of these two explosions?

I was affected by the circumstances that transformed my mind completely. Those included different situations that developed in my family from time to time also by certain incidents which occurred related to my father and his agricultural land in Jhelum.

As given earlier in Series No. 6, I joined the Army during World War II in 1943. Though I was studying in the Xth class, a privilege was granted to all such students to the effect that those who opted to join the Army would be entitled to get the Matriculation Certificate from the University without appearing in the exam. Say, it was the reward of their sacrifice of risking their life by joining the Army while the pitch dark clouds of war were hanging on the entire world.

There was such a shadow of terror all over the world and India in particular that the people were refrained from pronouncing the name of Herr Hitler in any form in public; so much horror that name had carried, that a ban was imposed on general public officially not to utter his name.

Since I also joined the Army leaving my studies in the middle, I was granted a Matriculation Certificate by the Punjab University which was equivalent to those who passed the Matriculation from the University, having the same educational value.

During the World War II, I saw ‘Death’ close to my heart every day, the moment the Japanese planes came to bombard our barracks, my blood boiled. I was not afraid of death but was concerned about the innocent people who were killed in the battle without any fault, I used to think about orphans, widows and old men, whose young ones were killed in the war, and there was none to support the members of the family left behind uncared; why war, what’s the use, what’s the benefit?

Why Germany and Japan were offensive without any logical reasons?  What made them to attack other nations? Wouldn’t God punish them? The Britain, America and other allies had no other option but to defend themselves. Such thoughts pained me the most and surrounded my mind and soul.

Since my father was the devotee of Lord Vishnu or His Incarnation Lord Krishna, I also followed the lead and had started developing faith in the Supreme Godhead. I used to keep a picture of Lord Krishna in my pocket with a belief that no bullet could touch me in the war and that happened accordingly, not even a single bullet hit me despite surrounded by daily danger of bombardments.

The most painful period for my life started when the British Allied forces decided to make Hiroshima, Japan, a primary target to use their first atomic bomb. I am not to debate whether that was justified or not?  It was August 7, 1945 when we were served breakfast in the Military Hall of my Unit.

A radio set was switched on by the Dining Hall In charge. The news of throwing Atom Bomb over Hiroshima shook my heart, I couldn’t control my grief when I realized that lakhs of people would have been killed, and more than them would have become crippled or would become invalid, most of them would beg for death to die but they wouldn’t be able to get rid of their unbearable torment and deformed body, some silent tears rolled on my face, which I cleaned and suffered silently.

It was reported that the Allied forces including Americans threw an Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima at 8:15 A.M. on 6th August 1945, a day earlier.

The story goes as under: About an hour before the actual occurrence, the Japanese Air force, Radar Department, gave an alert. Their Warning Radar Net had detected some American Aircraft heading towards southern part of Japan.

The alert was signaled and the radio broadcasting stopped in several cities including Hiroshima. The planes had approached the coast at a very high altitude.

Around 08 A.M. the radar operator in Hiroshima spotted that the number of planes coming towards those directions was just small, around three in numbers, and keeping in mind the small numbers of planes, they lifted the alert and treated that as a routine matter.

However, they issued a normal radio broadcast warning advising them better to go to shelter if B-29's were found sighted. The Japanese experts felt that no raid was anticipated except to continue keeping the vigilant eye around that particular area. 
At 8:15 A.M., the Atomic bomb was thrown on Hiroshima; it exploded with a blinding flash, and a huge rush of air and a loud roar of noise spread to vast area of many miles around the city.

The explosion was followed by the piercing sounds of cracking, tearing and crushing all the buildings and terrible fire with red smoke spread all over converting into large clouds of dust and smoke plunging the city into thick dark. What happened, it was anybody’s guess, there was no news, and simply guesswork and confusion was going on all over. 

At 8:16 A.M., the Tokyo Control Operator of the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation observed that the Hiroshima station had gone off the air. They tried their best to find out the reason by all available means, and then through alternative sources by using other telephone lines to reinstate their contact, but to no avail, there was no response.

After about twenty minutes, the Tokyo Railroad Telegraph Center (TRTC) comprehended that the telegraphic main line had stopped working north of Hiroshima all of a sudden. The railway lines towards Hiroshima, within ten miles of the city, also saw confused smoke all over; there was no traffic from the other side. The reports coming nearby Hiroshima were baffling; however, some terrible explosion was reported in Hiroshima, and it was later on confirmed by the Headquarters of the Japanese General Staff.

When the Japanese Military Headquarters failed in all their efforts to establish contact with Army Control Station in Hiroshima, they became confirmed that some unusual explosion had definitely occurred severely damaging Hiroshima; to what extent the damage, they were still in a state of confusion about the whole affair.

They were aggrieved, sad and helpless, not knowing what to do since as per their data, no large scale raid was possible to be conducted on Hiroshima from military point of view, and moreover, there was no highly inflammable big store of explosives installed over there, which could attract or cause such a big explosion in the city?
There were many questions goading their brains, they were trying to find out, and finally they had only physical option left out to them to know what actually had happened in Hiroshima.

The Japanese top brass hurriedly held an emergent meeting to consider the latest situation in Hiroshima, why their all contacts had failed? They also weighed the seriousness that it could not be a rumor, after all some thing serious had happened cutting all connections with Hiroshima.

When the Headquarters realized that some big explosion had definitely taken place over there causing a big damage, how and why that occurred and to what extent that caused the damage and how could that be possible was a puzzle for everyone, they decided to take immediate action?

They finalized the meeting and directed a young officer of the Japanese General Staff immediately to fly to Hiroshima to land over there and assess the damages and report back to Tokyo.

As directed, the staff officer went to the airport and took off for the southwest. After flying for about three hours or so they entered the area where from Hiroshima was about 100 miles away and they were shocked to see vast clouds of smoke, which they realized must have come from some deadly bomb thrown over there by the enemy.

They circled the area nearby to assess where they could safely land; they saw through high range binoculars that though it was glowing afternoon, the whole Hiroshima looked to be burning and flames rising higher and higher on different spots more shining than the bright Sun light and that shocked them unexplained. 
They landed their plane south of the city, and the staff officer reported the position to the Headquarters in Tokyo who directed him to organize the relief measures for them, wherever possible.

Tokyo's first knowledge of what had really caused the disaster came from the White House public announcement in Washington about sixteen hours after Hiroshima was hit by the atomic bomb.

Continued….