The author of “The Pedestrian”, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, and “The Sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury, viewed governments as too authoritative and weapons technology as extremely dangerous. His viewpoint on weapons of mass destruction is described in his story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, where a city is devastated by a nuclear bomb and everything except a single house is destroyed: “This was the only house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles”. Stephen Vincent Benet, the author of "By the Waters of Babylon", has a similar view on weapons. In his story, New York City is destroyed by some kind of chemical weapon and the new primitive civilization only knows of the city as “The Dead
