Probably the scariest device in those ancient epics was one called Brahmastra (Brahma’s weapon), which Ancient Astronaut theorists believe could have been a sort of nuclear bomb of extraterrestrial origin. In the stories, people were burned and melted by the Brahma weapon, and descriptions of its deadly aftereffects are similar to the effects of exposure to intense radiation. One reference speaks of explosions brighter than a thousand suns, and that following these blasts, the suns were twirling in the air and trees went up in flames. Then people who survived lost their hair and their nails started to fall out. The similarities between these effects and those of radiation poisoning as seen after the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bombs on Japanese cities during World War II, are uncanny. Could the description of the Brahma weapon actually be an earlier, extraterrestrial version of the nuclear bomb?