OK, sure. But then, it's been minutes away from Midnight on the Doomsday Clock since the late 40s, no? I do remember being in Moscow, when Reagan's joke about bombing the Soviet Union went public. Everyone pretty much knew it was a joke, given what a funny guy he was, but still it was freaky. And I was in Helsinki during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it's not that far from Leningrad (as we knew it then). So now? The fear has worn off, pretty much, and the chances are good that I'll die of something far more mundane. But one never knows. And WTF, seeing a fireball up close and personal would be cool.