I often wake at 3am - and reach for my iPhone.
I expect in the next decade to read a headline at that time - Reports of nuclear strikes.
It'll start as a skirmish over Taiwan - the Chinese will then damage or sink a US capital ship - with reciprocal strikes.
The Chinese will lose most of their navy and air force, and then will decide there's nothing left to lose, and use a nuclear weapon or two.
Pine Gap will certainly be hit, east coast airbases, and I'll hear and feel the warhead that hits Garden Island a few kilometres away.
A US city or two will be burnt.
And at that point my friends - the US will go utterly berserk - and burn the whole east coast of China.
Thus history repeats...