Lost In Deceit

The WW2 war was done and dusted with the surrender of Japan in 1945, but the race for dominance was far from over. Two unlikely allies were staring down at each other with aggression and uncompromising passion to rule the arena and this lead to the emergence of two super powers: The USA and the Soviet Union commonly known as U.S.S.R. “The democrats and the communists can never be on the same page” as its always said. It was just a matter of time before all hell would break loose and so it did and this led to the birth of “Cold War”. The war was psychological in nature rather than transgressional. Many new ideologies rose up so did the nuclear stockpile. Presently the world holds around 13,000 active warheads, however at the peak of the cold war, once the U.S.S.R held 45,000 active nuclear warhead alone. It’s all in the history with most part of it forgotten.   One such forgotten tale from the past during peak period is “1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident”. The tempers wer...

History has many secret hidden that are lost somewhere in the sands of time. Historians have always been accused of being biased and ruthless, and often driven by agenda which is backed by a state or an institution. Hence they don’t mind skimming the history as per their convenience or in order to please someone and while doing so, they often end up tampering the facts and henceforth history itself. While many things are hidden which are proving to become difficult to unearth with the passage of time. One such incident that has suffered the same fate is “The Potsdam Declaration”. It was the official instrument of surrender which ended the biggest war known in the history. What we know so far is that the Americans nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki which forced the Japanese to surrender, but there’s always two sides of a story. With Japanese taking out Pearl Harbor on December 7 th , 1941 forced the US to officially declare war, what followed soon for the next three and half years was nothi...