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> After WWI, the mass horror caused by certain types of weapons like chemical weapons were enough to get all powerful countries to agree we didn't want to see t
by tuatoru 5y ago
> After WWI, the mass horror caused by certain types of weapons like chemical weapons were enough to get all powerful countries to agree we didn't want to see them on the planet.
Yeah. Kind of. Officially. In primary school books. Chemical weapons (and biological weapons) don't work¹, in addition to producing horrific images and stories.
It was easy to ban them for this combination of reasons.
Killer robots? We don't know yet, but they have the potential of working excellently well. (Although it depends on various reliabilities, the logistics chain required, activation time, percent deployable time, and failure modes. Probably among other things.)
If they work, it will be hard to get them banned. The measure of their effectiveness will be their ability to neutralise the enemy's military capability without destroying economic infrastructure (which you will want to take over and use for yourself. If you don't, there are nuclear weapons for that).
1. https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/ https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...