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** And by all accounts, they all DO have it by the time the protagonist arrives in San Lorenzo. The story points out the problem with this kind of Mutually Assured Destruction deterrent scenario: sooner or later somebody nuts (or about to die anyway) can get their hands on the [[Doomsday Device]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Dr. Hoenikker is not a [[Complete Monster]]. Rather, he is completely oblivious to the fact that his puttering around in the lab inventing whatever pops into his head might have undesirable consequences, and if somebody were to point this out to him he seems to lack the ability to understand the seriousness of it or to care.

* [[Minovsky Physics]]

* [[Science Is Bad]]: Or at least, science for it's own sake is bad, because it doesn't know or really care about the consequences of what it creates.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Boko-maru, the only real ritual of the Bokononists, is described as a meeting of '''souls'''. It is performed by having the two participants remove their footwear, and then [[Fetish Fuel|press the]] '''[[Fetish Fuel|soles]]''' [[Fetish Fuel|of their feet together]].

* [[Together in Death]]: {{spoiler|Horlick and Claire Minton}} die in this way.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The ''entire human race''. From the beginning, we get the sense that humans are stupidly rushing themselves toward destruction and that it's just a question of how and when it happens.