Ancient Radioactive Sites in India and Pakistan
Ten miles west of Jodhpur, a city in the Northern Rajasthan region of India, a three-square-mile radioactive zone was discovered during excavation for a housing project. Under the ground surface were a layer of highly radioactive dust and ash in a circular pattern, “consistent with what occurs underneath a typical air-burst nuclear detonation.”
The housing project was canceled, but coincidentally, in 2016, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) built a laboratory at Jodhpur to develop a drone-mounted radioactivity sensor.
In what is now Pakistan, the ruins of two ancient cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Dara, were discovered in the 1920s. The two sites were dated to around 2,500 BCE. Archaeological excavation began, and when the dig reached the original street level, 44 skeletons were found sprawled in the ancient roadways.
A researcher, David Davenport, found what would have been a blast epicenter, “a 50-yard radius at the site where all objects were found to have been fused and glassified.” Another researcher reported at least one skeleton that had “50 times the level of radiation is should have had.”
After the discoveries, there was official silence on the topic, aside from explanations that included a meteor strike, nuclear testing, and other scenarios. What was interesting was the 1983 National Cancer Registry report stating that leukemia and skin, bone, and prostate cancer occurrences were much higher in Jodhpur than the rest of the country.
While officials and mainstream scientists continue to find alternate explanations for anomalies like desert glass, radioactive skeletons, ancient nuclear dust, and ash, etc., the simplest explanation is that at some point in distant human history, radioactive devices were detonated.
As a scientist, Oppenheimer would have been familiar with the Occam’s Razor principle — if there are multiple explanations for a mystery, the simplest solution is likely to closest to the truth.
