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Nuclear bombs are essentially unprofitable and impossible to use anonymously, so they aren't really analogous to most dangerous tech that needs to be controlled
by brucethemoose2 4y ago
Nuclear bombs are essentially unprofitable and impossible to use anonymously, so they aren't really analogous to most dangerous tech that needs to be controlled.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoThe armed forces you need to keep neighboring rivals or meddling first world powers out of your borders are also highly unprofitable
- throwaway426079 4y agoYou're right. But I don't think profit is everyone's first concern. The Kim dynasty needs the DPRK army as a tool of internal control more than it does for defense.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoThe benefits that gives them are very much a type of profit.
- dilznoofus 4y agoAnd a few million bucks isn't hard to come by when you're in control of an entire country Even if it's as poor as NK, the guy who commands it can have more material riches than most of us can really consider
- dumbotron 4y agoYou don't use a nuclear bomb. Well, maybe once, somewhere remote. The idea is once you do, you can do anything you want. Want to annex Ukraine? Want to run a country where you're the dear leader? All you need is a nuke.
- brucethemoose2 4y agoThats another differentiator though. Most dangerous tech is more a "temptation to misuse" rather than a largely unusable (but effective) threat to wave around like a nuke or a biological WMD.