Did Nostradamus Nail It?

In 1990, when I was religion editor of The (Charleston, S.C.) News and Courier, I wrote a column about a researcher who compared Nostradamus’ quatrains with history and wrote what he thought Nostradamus saw coming. 

The researcher, Rene Noorbergan, foresaw the future from the time Nostradamus wrote, around 1550, until Noorbergan wrote, in 1982, with astonishing accuracy. 

But matching the quatrains with history is easy when you have 20-20 hindsight.  My column was based on how accurately Noorbergan’s interpretations matched history from the time Noorbergan wrote until the time I wrote -- eight years. 

The result:  He nailed it again.  He foresaw distinguished advances in communications and travel in air, on land, on sea and under the sea. 

But what about his accuracy for the period between that 1990 column and today? 

You judge.  But as you read, remember that Nostradamus wrote long before the United States, the Soviet Union or Communism even existed; and that Noorbergen wrote at a time when Communism was rising, and the United States and the USSR were locked in a cold war.  Here’s Nostradamus’ final predictions, written 460 years ago and interpreted 30 years ago:   

In the 1990s, rising demands for consumer goods, combined with a resurgence of nationalism among minorities, will force the Stalinist dictators from power.  A new form of government will evolve that will be Communist in name only.

The West, led by the United States, will align itself with that new government, which will unbalance the world politically.  Soon China will align itself with Middle Eastern governments, thus splitting the world into two alliances.  

Those two alliances will meet in World War III, which Nostradamus refers to as Armageddon, the final war between Good and Evil. 

The quatrains end after the 21st Century begins.   

-Skip