"I don't know...Some kinds of silliness you just can't stop," he said. "I mean, if a couple of hundred million people all decide that their national honour requires them to drop cobalt bombs upon their neighbour, well, there's not much that you or I can do about it. The only possible hope would have been to educate them out of their silliness."

I just finished volume seven and it was pretty sad. I'm on this post apocalyptic kick lately. I'm interested in the history of apocalyptic events whether they were global or personal.