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In 1903, with Sir William Ramsay, Soddy verified that the decay of radium produced helium.

He had a great regard for the Indian epics of Ramayana and The Mahabharat.
In 1909 when academics were first beginning to grasp the awesome power of the atom, he did not take these ancient records as fable.

In the Interpretation of Radium (1909) he wrote these lines:

“Can we not read into them some justification for the belief that some former forgotten
race of men attained not only to the knowledge we have so recently won, but also to the power that is not yet ours?”

When Dr Soddy wrote the book, the atom-bomb box of Pandora had not yet been opened.

In 1909 when academics were first beginning to grasp the awesome power of the atom, physicist Frederick Soddy
wrote in his Interpretation of Radium: "I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were
familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed."


(source: We Are Not The First: Riddles of Ancient Science - By Andrew Tomas p. 53).
For more refer to chapter on War in Ancient India and Vimanas.