Nuclear weapon

Was the Mahabharata war a nuclear war? Were weapons of mass destruction used in the war? Think twice before dismissing it as an absurd theory.

These are some of the references in Mahabharata (Musala Parva)

...Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana (fast aircraft) hurled a single projectile Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as ten thousand Suns
Rose in all its splendor...

...it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The Entire race of the Vrishnis and thr Andhakas.

...the corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
Their hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.

After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...

...To escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment...

Cats were born of bitches, and mouse of the mongoose (Genetic Defects due to radiation?)

Oppenheimer, the architect of modern atomic bomb who was in charge of the Manhattan project was asked by a student after the Manhattan explosion,
“How do you feel after having exploded the first atomic bomb on earth”.
Oppenheimer’s reply for the question was ,
“not first atomic bomb, but first atomic bomb in modern times”.

Excavations of Mohen Jo Daro in North India revealed towns which had been completely destroyed quite unexpectedly!! There were no traces of natural disasters or wars! Scientists Davneport and Vincenti put forward a theory saying the ruins were of a nuclear blast as they found big stratums of clay and green glass. High temperature melted clay and sand and they hardened immediately afterwards. Similar stratums of green glass can also found in Nevada deserts after every nuclear explosion.

A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built.