What's the big deal ?

The whole issue of the nuclear deal has created so much brouhaha that it is time for me to step in and explain to you ignorant masses what this is all about. And when,I am finished, you will want to use candles instead.

To understand the deal, we would need to first understand the basics of nuclear energy. For that, we will have start at the beginning since if we start at the end, this post would end here.

So here is how it all began

One fine day, God said “Let there be light”

Oh well, maybe we need not go back that far. Let’s fast forward a couple of billion years (or 6000 biblical years depending on your point of view) ahead to Enrico Fermi in his lab. Fermi had been pretty much whiling his time away doing nothing, so he got a memo from his boss which read

“All day long, you do nothing but just sit here
Hoping for an idea to strike, while drinking beer
But now, it’s time for you to get off your bottom
To do some physics and go split an atom”

Well, his boss did not exactly send a memo but I had to fit in that poem somewhere. So Fermi got busy trying to split an atom. His initial technique involved placing a little bit of uranium on the table and then using a big hammer. But three broken tables and a swollen thumb later, he realized that a hammer was not really the way to go. So after experimenting with scissors, knives and nail clippers, he finally hit upon the nuclear reactor. A nuclear reactor is a huge dome containing uranium. Instead of a hammer, we have a gigantic pestle that pounds the uranium till it splits and releases energy.

Now that you have the scientific know-how, it is easier to explain the controversy behind the nuclear deal. See, the Congress government wants to import the pestle from the United States, since it would take us several years to make our own. But the communists want us to use the sickle to split an atom. And they want it to be imported from China. A sickle is fine if you want to chop coconuts but for atoms, it just won’t fly (If you recall, Fermi did not even attempt a sickle. Nail clipper...yes, but not a sickle)

So our communist comrades decided to withdraw their support to the government which actually turned out pretty well for the Congress. Now they have been able to go forward with the deal.

Very soon, power cuts in Bangalore will be a thing of the past. That means I don’t have to worry about the power going off while I am writing a blog post.

Becaase typeng in tha dark may leed to spalling misstikes