Nuclear war? *

An ominous prediction for this year was recently made by Ottavio Cesare Ramotti, who interpreted Nostradamus's prophecies in a very modern way, namely, using a computer. Of course, this modernity, contrary to appearances, does not equate to something better. Nevertheless, it is worth quoting what Ramotti said.

Nostradamus is often verbose, too detailed. Hundreds of poems about World War II, 24 about the Falklands War. (...) It is certain that there could be a terrible war, an atomic war (he repeatedly uses the concept of atomique , which was little known in his time). The war will break out in 1993 .

Let's add, however, that it won't be the end of the world, and Ramotti says this as follows: "The prophecies reach until 2050. The end of the world will come, but much later. Everything is written there. I got involved when I read a newspaper story about the Pope's visit to the Lourdes grotto in 1983. It corresponded word for word to the quatrain describing the Pope's visit to the grotto in the Pyrenees. Having established this as a precise point, all that was needed was to put the lines into the computer." So much for the modern interpreter, who has great faith in computers. But isn't it too much?