Today is Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" Nuclear War Day First published in 1950, Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" describes a single house miraculously standing after nuclear attacks have destroyed the city (and presumably global civilization), the house still going about its automated duties for a time, unaware of what has occurred. Yes, remarkably prescient, and unlike much science-fiction, damned accurate on his predicted dating as well. The house announces: "Today is August 4, 2026." Ray would have hated the world today. I miss him. L