[kj] Author Norman Spinrad's use of the phrase "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" in the 1970s

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Is this a well known thing? Was reading a short story by sci-fi author 
Norman Spinrad today, "The Big Flash," about a rock group called the 
Four Horsemen who help provoke Armageddon. They use an uadio visual 
display for their band that includes a film with someone reciting the 
line "Brighter than a thousand suns..."

Is this common Killing Joke lore? I was pretty stunned when I read this. 
The Spinrad story "The Big Flash" is in a collection of post-apocalyptic 
sci-fi and horror stories called _Beyond Armageddon_. Like I said, the 
story itself was written during the Nixon administration.


-Oliver