In the the
GURPS Technomancer RPG world by
David Pulver, this phrase completed a
necromantic ritual begun centuries before that in combination with the detonation of the bomb brought
magic back to the
Earth.
From then on out, any atomic or nuclear explosions form a manastorm, kind of like a standing magical tornado. there have been two detonations in Technomancer; the original Trinity blast and an Antarctic blast by Russia. A third would cause the entire world to be engulfed by a manastorm, so don't go nuking people. Not that you need to when you can lob big-ass fireballs.