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Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of Damocles

Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches global threat half cocked. Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttimes iterated throughout history though an atheist (actually Unitarian), no doubt this, that or another psalm countless times the Bible references Armageddon and doomsday impossible mission to remain cool, collected and calm. Whether affiliated with donkey or elephant Democrat or Republican viz blue war red respectively political hot issues don't amount ?to a (Sam) hill of beans when Sword of Damocles count approaches zero hour as global tensions mount signaling increased chance trigger finger will free?avast nuclear winter (across world wide web) re: leasing plethora, pyrocumulus mushroom clouds tree mend us planetary explosions annihilating webbed wide? world, an irrevocable indeed earthlinked debacle? spelling widespread species multitudinous extinction? ex post de facto after super bowling powers (wannabe) vied to wrest empowerment spanning entire realm sans third rock? from the father, sun and holy ghost, who turned substantial pockets of flora and fauna once populating oblate spheroid ad hoc ??significant swaths of life forms pulverized and/or turned to ash? transformed into radioactive wasteland giving T.S. Eliot a run for his money after war mongers brash lee usurped hegemony (ruling inhabitants of Gaia with an iron fist? with a smidgen of flavoring courtesy of Missus Dash superfluous taste enhancer, when sibling burnt offering views between Venus and Mars incendiary tolled mourning news smithereens sole remnant poisoned every square inch? from weapon of mass destruction that did (akin to doubting Thomas) cruise engendering thick noxious fog disabling fox but not cockroach ?while smoldering seas and continents ?skull and crossbones didst poach? amidst the gasified, liquified, pureed where holographic ghoulish super bowl coach rendering lifelessness home for menagerie? where virtue trounced vice as organisms (particularly one primate) didst try? (predominant 21st century simians) tool heave with amity, comity, and empathy animals and plants an experiment that went awry presaging a nuclear winter with nary a winner ?implicating mankind as the absolute sinner instantaneously after Doomsday Clock signaled point of no return? where grim reaper the sole grinner feasting on human flesh for dinner.

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