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Originally Posted by ravenfish
I always assumed that Van Zadnt's secret was a dossier of embarrassing information about world leaders, to be released if they opposed his proposal. Call me a cynic, but I don't think anything as trivial as the long-term survival of humanity could convince the powers to agree on giving up a strategically-useful new technology. (I mean, look at how well such appeals have worked in our history...)
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Dictators are pretty much immune to that kind of embarrassment and part of Van Zandt's deal was that they would in fact get to use the new technology through Infinity. The dire consequences of an oops just discourages them from trying to develop it independently rather than dealing with Infinity.