"the ease with which they could keep erring mankind in order by threatening them (as if they were Jove himself) with atomic thunderbolts."
The same sort of dream plagued WW-2 ("The bombers will always get through" -- except they didn't, and they generally couldn't hit the broadside of a factory within a half a mile.), and I hear people touting the "rods from god" as though that would solve everything. Or that bunkerbusters will solve the last problems in Iran, to be up-to-the-minute about it.
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If it were so surgical and precise it would be easy to support.
But getting in is easy, getting out is hard.
But it's never as thorough as planned, or as accurate as advertised, nor is one's knowledge as complete as believed, and there's the intangible of "getting their back up" among the people you weren't aiming at.
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