'Military history teaches us an important lesson,' warns statistician Peter Lewis: 'If a particular weapon system is to be stopped, it needs to be
stopped early. The further advanced a weapon system becomes, the more difficult is its suppression. Once a programme has been funded, jobs and careers
become linked to it. Bureaucratic inertia takes over. The best time to tackle a weapon is almost before it has left the inventor's mind.'
In a paper, 'The Road from Armageddon', Lewis describes a number of horrifying possible future weapons, about which military speculation has already
begun. Some are for the distant future and require assembly in outer space, for instance anti-matter bombs ('the force of the explosion would be
equivalent to 43 MT per kilogram of anti-matter destroyed, an efficiency far in excess of uranium or any other nuclear explosive') or black hole
bombs ('military theorists have started to speculate about the possibility of using small black holes as weapons, by cutting off their supply of
fresh material electrically').
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