Points: War today totally different from war in the past — War now a highly technical business — Science should help peace instead of war.
War in modern times is completely different from the local fights of the earlier times. Now war is a highly technical operation. It s not all expensive, it is mechanical and depends much on science. The art of war has now become the science of warfare. All the modern inventions to science are made use of in a modern war.
War is a now a push-button affair. Missiles are thrown from a long distance. The army men are just technicians of war. The air force is manned by a highly specialized team. What is more, the nuclear power is now harnessed for destruction. The atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki are nothing compared with those that are being stockpiled by USA and USSR.
But must science be destructive? Was science designed primarily for war? If not, why is science today aiding and abetting the war- mongers? These questions are very relevant in the context of the modern world. It is for man to turn ‘science for war’ into ‘science for peace’. He can turn swords into ploughshares and turn all battlefields into source of food grains.
War in modern times is completely different from the local fights of the earlier times. Now war is a highly technical operation. It s not all expensive, it is mechanical and depends much on science. The art of war has now become the science of warfare. All the modern inventions to science are made use of in a modern war.
War is a now a push-button affair. Missiles are thrown from a long distance. The army men are just technicians of war. The air force is manned by a highly specialized team. What is more, the nuclear power is now harnessed for destruction. The atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki are nothing compared with those that are being stockpiled by USA and USSR.
But must science be destructive? Was science designed primarily for war? If not, why is science today aiding and abetting the war- mongers? These questions are very relevant in the context of the modern world. It is for man to turn ‘science for war’ into ‘science for peace’. He can turn swords into ploughshares and turn all battlefields into source of food grains.
