Nephew sounds rather a proto-fascist here - I wonder whether he will herald or represent more than a narrative presence in the future?

Then again they may not matterMacArthur smiled. Maybe his nephew was right. Maybe they were at war.
But MacArthur was no longer afraid. If the Reds dared attack, he would strike back with everything the United States had. Everything.
Even the kind of weapons once thought to belong to God alone.