How coherent and fear-mongering is this passage?
33 Since 1914 we have gone through two world wars, the second being worse than the first. We have seen atomic power introduced into modern warfare, under the shield of the most powerful nation of Christendom. We are not yet done with the pestilences, the famines and the earthquakes that have cut deeply into the world population. (Really? Isn't the 20th century a time of unprecedented growth in human population?) We have seen an increase in lawlessness, with violence that must be worse than that which prevailed in Noah's days (Really? Were you there?) before the flood in which the whole old world was destroyed. -Genesis 6:11-13; 2 Peter 3:6.34 To this we must add the moral breakdown everywhere, the increase of social diseases, the breakup of empires, a world population explosion (Wait a minute? I thought the population was "cut deeply"?) with inadequate food distribution (But far better than in any time in human history), missile weaponry with nuclear warheads, the blasting off of which would be followed by a fire storm that would burn up a far greater area than that of Sodom and Gomorrah (standard Cold War fear, plus another biblical comparison) and the other cities of the Jordan plain.
35 And now the latest thing proposed is an "asteroid bomb," which would be a rocket powerful enough to propel a small planet out of its orbit around the sun and send it crashing into a target area here on earth. In describing it, a scientist said: "A single asteroid bomb striking Kentucky would knock out the entire eastern half of the United States," this to be followed by earthquake shocks that "would topple buildings all over the North American continent." The scientist said that the Soviet Union should have such a rocket by or before 1970. Is this not indeed a time for fear? (Take Courage -- God's Kingdom is at Hand!, 1962, Watchtower and Bible Tract Society)
I must've missed that development. ::shrug::