Hmmm... I thought the day Clinton's hair turned gray was when the independent counsel first brought up Monica Lewinsky's name.
I don't think it's difficult to distinguish between an atmospheric nuke blast and an atmospheric asteroid explosion. It probably takes analysts in the U.S. a half-hour or so, and it might take their equivalents in India or Pakistan a couple of hours. But if somebody's got a twitchy finger on the launch button, that might be too long to wait.