Why are nukes a thing of the past?

[Phil Masters]

I've always vaguely assumed the "brutal security" answer. However, pervasive microtech enables brutal security to be amazingly polite most of the time. Any identifiable political radical who starts, say, reading biographies of Robert Oppenheimer may well get a couple of SWAT combat shells arriving through his front door, though.

Privacy? Yeah, largely shot by 2014 standards. But even with AI support, processing all that data on everybody is a bit like hard work. So security organisations have learned to focus on the important things. Like the ones that involve uranium.