Author: Dr. Anupam Sharma

Ancient India, according to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, saw exploitation of outer space and use of energy as weapons to create inordinate devastation during wars. The design of modern spacecraft has a lot in common with the ‘Vimana’, or ancient Indian spacecraft. The use of very powerful space weapons such as the ‘Brahmadanda’ of Lord Brahma and the ‘Vajra’ of Indra, the God of heavens, lightning and thunderbolt, is also described in ancient manuscripts. History repeats itself. The devastating effects of nuclear weapons and the recent news of the plan of highly frightening space-based weapons labelled as “Rods from the God” by the…