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The unleashing of “weapons of mass destruction” in the Middle East underlies the fear of Armageddon prophecies coming true. The sad fact is that a mounting conflict—among gods, not men—did lead to the use of nuclear weapons, right there, four thousand years ago. And if there ever was a most regrettable act with the most unexpected consequences, that was it. That nuclear weapons had been used on Earth for the first time not in 1945 A.D. but in 2024 B.c.k. is fact, not fiction. The fateful event is described in a variety of ancient texts from which the What and How, the Why and Who can be construed, reconstructed and put in context. Those an- cient sources include the Hebrew Bible, for the first Hebrew Patriarch, Abraham, was an eyewitness to the awesome ca- lamity. The failure of the War of the Kings to subdue the “rebel lands” of course discouraged the Enlilites and encourged the Mardukites, but the events did more than that. On Enlil’s in- structions, Ninurta got busy setting up an alternative space fa- cility on the other side of the world—all the way in what is now Peru in South America. The texts indicate that Enlil him- self was away from Sumer for long stretches of time. These gods’ moves caused the last two kings of Sumer, Shu-Sin and Ibbi-Sin, to waver in their allegiances and to start paying hom- age to Enki in his Sumerian foothold, Eridu. The divine ab- sences also loosened controls over the Elamite “Foreign Legion,” and the records speak of “sacrileges” by the Elamite troops. Gods and men were increasingly disgusted with it all. GONE WITH THE WIND