Why are nukes a thing of the past?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Owen Smith

I thought the near severing of the Mars beanstalk by terrorists was done using a nuke?

That seems to only complicate matters. It happened once, but the society doesn't seem as obsessed about preventing it from happening again as it was obsessed about cold war nukes, or plane terrorism, or whatever, in other eras.

Oh, and there's the issue of antimatter warheads/bombs too. After all, AM seems relatively easy to get, since it's being used in space propulsion. Well, easy to get from non-Terran merchants, anyway.