Chapters 16 through 18

Well first of all, I really like the part at the end of chapter 16 when he says that he notices those rainbow colored gasoline puddles. I see those all the time so that was pretty cool. Anyways,Im analyzing the very end of chapter 18. "Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will." There are so many things to say about this. First of all, he considers himself an atheist so I'm not sure I'll take his word on this. Most importantly, people must have thought that they would need to really have to be afraid anymore of wars and stuff. The bomb would be enough influence and would keep other countries at bay. Maybe Holden is the only one who thinks like this. People should have been informed that the destruction that it causes is too much and they can't go and shoot em at countries all willy nilly.
That might actually be one reason that not as many people went out for the war in NAM. They all thought that we could just nuke em and be done. This must have been a huge part of peoples lives. They probably had monuments of the bombs in their living rooms or something. Not really though but I'm sure that it was on peoples' minds a lot. Besides, they used Dr. Manhattan and the comedian in NAM.