This most definitely raises the stakes for some type of possible impending nuclear war! Might we be drawing very near to the "sudden destruction" / Rapture? The hour is very late in these End Times, as Israel is approaching 74 1/2 years old. From the "parable of the fig tree" in the Bible, we are the generation (from 1948) to see all end time events fulfilled! That includes the upcoming Rapture, 7 year Tribulation Period, and then the Second Coming of Israel's long rejected Messiah, Who is Christ.