I can't wait until the day when someone with some serious spellcasting skill gets hold of a dozen of these things, and start lighting them off like sparklers on the forth of July! I don't care where iit happens, I just want to be around to see it happen.
I'm rather skeptical. It just seems like too much power that can be concentrated in the hands of too few. It also sounds like it'd be capable of acting as a deterrent to war, through MAD: "If you attack us, we'll nuke you with scrolls of undead".
We've never seen war between nuclear-able nations, as far as I know. I fear the effects of having such devastating weapons (against which there is no efficient defense) might have on diplomacy.
