What if there were Nanites that could eat gunpowder in bullets and literally scour the planet for weapons, knowingly when they were going to be misused. A sort of smart, bacteria-sized robots that could sniff out and destroy ammunition and nuclear warheads, as well as conventional explosives, even the blade of a knife in the wrong hands. Is this possible? Of course the creator of this technology, would have to have anti-Nano Ammo. But still hopefully the establishment of right and good, could actually eliminate killing through weapons.
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That is called Bio Germ Warfare.
Think of a better way to kill peoples and some tax collecting agency will figure out how to exploit it.
There was profit in Detante, there is more profit in war.
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First we have to wait for Wesley Crusher to be born, so he can invent the things. 22nd or 23rd century if memory serves.
Second: gunpowder hasn’ t been used in weapons for years. It produces too much smoke. Its hard to see what you’re shooting at through a dense cloud of smoke. Smoke also tells the enemy where YOU are.
Third: I’d worry more about the nannites being used as weapons to eat everything. That would be easier to build than a selective machine. Self-replicating nano-sized machines could devour the earth. This would be bad. Very Bad.