And it happened when North Korea tested their nuclear weapon.
I was reminded of Paul Johnson’s Nuclear Nightmare piece from a few years ago:
The sound of the explosion was so loud, so prolonged and so unusual that I knew at once I was listening to a historic singularity. Indeed, it may not have been an explosion: more a catastrophic global event. Was it the end of the world? As the initial noise fell in volume, though it did not cease, a pentecostal wind swept over my house in Notting Hill. It faces north into the street, and the air current came from the south, as I could see from the trees bending over in our south-facing garden. I was sitting in my library, in my habitual chair near the French windows, and was astonished to see fallen leaves plastered on to them and held there by the fierce wind. Then I felt movement….
And now we’ll find out what the world is really like with a nutcase running about with a nuclear weapon…
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