The Bible says the second time that God smites the Earth it will be done by fire. So I take that to mean that during WWIII someone nukes Israel and they invoke the Samson option and nuke everyone else. I must say, it WOULD indeed be ideal indeed to regard this prophecy as the ramblings of a madman like our Deist founding fathers did and avert such an outcome. However I must admit I would feel some modicum of relief