I love Cormac McCarthy. The Road is utterly devastating. Much to say about it – but mostly … how ever much I loved this book, was stunned by this book, I can never ever read it again.

I actually finsihed it while in the air en route to General Conference. I’m sure my fellow passengers thought I was on my way to a funeral. I sobbed uncontrollably at the final few pages.

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Other good news is that it looks like North Korea and Pakistan are faking it. Even if they weren’t, a dozen plutonium bombs are not that big a deal. This isn’t Cold War II.

Mike, credit goes to the Russians for the rocket propelled grenade.

Atoms for Peace

Ah, yes. Eisenhower’s nuclear weapon marketing campaign–get the unwashed masses to feel warm and fuzzy about messing with the atom, create incentives for the have nots to stay that way through promises of technological transfer and quietly develop the world’s most destructive arsenal ever. And all in the name of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy. Woot!

Of course, J, as Jeremy points out, the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons was the US. That’s not meant so much as a jab at America per se — as Churchill would certainly have done the same thing had he had the means — but it does remind us that we are not exempt from raining down blood and horror.

Anyway, I love your image of the real purifying fire of God. Stirring stuff.

And yes, N. Korea’s nukes may be the biggest threat to the world that no-one cares about.

Thanks, all.