I haven't been feeling all that well today, so I was sitting back, watching the Boob Tube (look it up kiddies, I don't mean porn) while my mind wandered. Part of the show I was watching mentioned the Cold War, in particular the Tzar Pushka, which was the largest bomb that has ever been detonated by the human race. It set me to thinking:

Isn't it incredible that this bomb was SO powerful, that Russia - a country stereotypically known for being a bit unreasonable - went "woah, this is getting out of hand, we better cut this out". On top of that, the OTHER country known for being a little over-the-top in the military department - The United States of America - responded to this obvious sign of Russian supremacy with ". . . dude, you're right. That's just too scary; you win this peen-measuring contest, I'm not even going to TRY and out-do you this time!"

I have no doubt that the tactical missiles that are being held in reserve these days are at LEAST that powerful, if not moreso, but as least everyone is still scared enough of the "Power of the Atom" to tone things back down to a dick-waving contest, rather than outright dick-sparring. With the way that Russia's soviet-minded president (premier? I have no clue) is heading, do ye think we might be in for a sequel to the Cold War?

Sorry, I didn't mean to get political there; the point I was wanting to get acrosss is that I'm still amazed that humanity made something SO INCREDIBLY SCARY that we all collectively shat our pants full of bricks, and pinky-promised each other that we'd never do something so stupid again.