There was very little mention of this in our mainstream media today, you'd almost think it never happened. As we struggle with so many foreign and domestic problems, the historian in me think we didn't learn from World War II, or the events that lead us to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Part of me finds it ironic that North Korea threatens us with ICBM technology that's older than I am. The world watches with prurient interest while we muddle around and do...nothing. Yes, I do recall that I did blow up the Tokyo Starport in one of my novels, but--in all fairness--that was just a story.
This is real. A resurgent Russia and rising China were never hard to predict. I should know, because I wrote about that possibility more than ten years ago (as you read this). The fiction writer in me finds more to work with these days that time allows. Who doesn't want to know how this turns out? I'm sure that many good storytellers are losing sleep, trying to keep up with it all.