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There's only a single civilization-scale weapon effect in the inventory, and its usage reflects something more impactful than a mere "war crime". Once the Firs
by lopsotronic 6mo ago
There's only a single civilization-scale weapon effect in the inventory, and its usage reflects something more impactful than a mere "war crime".
Once the First Use Taboo is broached, nuclear explosives will be used for everything. Wherever you have a spare 100kg of payload and a hardened or area target - nuclear explosives, from a weapon effect perspective, are simply too good not to use, once the cat's out of the bag. It'll be like machine guns in the early days of WW1 - where they broke the taboo of using them on _civilized peoples_ - but in this metaphor each bullet being the most powerful device made by Man.
Breaking First Use - particularly against a non-existential[1] threats - might rank among the worst single decisions in human history.
[1] or non-existent
- saidnooneever 6mo agothankfully they will use LLM for targeting and it will all be over in a flash pfew