Life & Temperatures on Titan

[DataPacRat]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Any society that uses nukes for anti-terrorism activities is going to not last long. Terrorists are civilian criminals, not military forces, and using nukes against civilians is by definition a war crime. Anyway, any military officer who used nukes against civilian targets, and any politician who was stupid enough to give them that authority, would find themselves executed when the inevitable revolution occurred.

I could suggest that since TL10 has micronukes and antimatter warheads that blur the distinction between conventional arms and WMDs, being able to apply such weaponry at need (such as against WMD-toting insurgents sponsored by a foreign government) could still be a useful tool...

... but it seems more plausible to use Mass Combat's alternate suggestion, and classify this particular up-to-strategic-scale weapon as "military-grade nanotech". ("For when you need to absolutely, positively, turn an area full of unpleasant molecules into harmless atoms".)

Not that I expect any such weaponry to actually be deployed in any reasonable circumstances. After all, the intelligence service alone has a lot of toys to play with to find unpleasant people before those bad guys start loading milspec blueprints into suitcase robofacs or crop-eating microbe DNA into suitcase biofacs; such tools ranging from robobugs disguised as regular insects to releasing sabotaged robofac-blueprints full of trackers. (Haven't figured out decent anti-biowar precautions yet, but that's because I've been going over Ultra-Tech instead of Bio-Tech lately.)