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If this sort of prevention didn't work for nuclear weapons it'll not work for anything ever.

• RugnirViking 4y ago
  we did at least relatively okay with nuclear weapons? I notice that there are a whole lot less of them now than there were, nobody has used any, and several countries under extreme pressure still haven't developed them (taiwan, japan, south korea, armenia, venezuela, syria)
• mechagodzilla 4y ago
  This basically worked perfectly with nuclear weapons. Everyone took their development extremely seriously, and we’ve managed to avoid a nuclear apocalypse. If anyone could get on their computer and buy a nuke from Amazon, we would all be dead within the week.
  • thfuran 4y ago
    Of course, software production and testing is a hell of a lot harder to detect via satellite imaging and seismographs and can be performed using readily available materials, so it's a good deal harder to control.
  • fooker 4y ago
    It worked — after destroying two whole cities.