I'll tell you one thing that is in the bible that gives me pause... In 2 Peter 3:10

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."

Now I know that biblical scholars think that someone other than Peter wrote this long after Peter died but one way or the other it was still written in antiquity. The first time I read that I immediately thought of atomic war. What could have put that vision into the mind of a man living in the first century ?