> You're building land mines I prefer to think of it as stockpiling toxic nuclear waste. A land mine explodes causing isolated damage to a single unlucky indiv

> You're building land mines I prefer to think of it as stockpiling toxic nuclear waste. A land mine explodes causing isolated damage to a single unlucky individual one time. Toxic nuclear waste on the other hand poisons an entire city (ie. area of technology) and is pretty much indestructible until its half life (or several of them) expires.