You know, when the Trinity Shot was touched off in July, 1945, there was some concern that it would ignite the atmosphere. Woulda ended WW2, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, recessions, depressions, the Civil Rights Movement, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland -- just all sorts of things.

Niner, I too had those classes. In the Army they told us that if we saw a nuclear explosion we were to dig a hole, cover it with our ponchos, crawl in and sit tight and the fallout wouldn't get us. I suspect that the tooth fairy would come to wrap our bodies in the ponchos and fill in the hole.