[mechagodzilla]

This basically worked perfectly with nuclear weapons. Everyone took their development extremely seriously, and we’ve managed to avoid a nuclear apocalypse. If anyone could get on their computer and buy a nuke from Amazon, we would all be dead within the week.

[thfuran]

Of course, software production and testing is a hell of a lot harder to detect via satellite imaging and seismographs and can be performed using readily available materials, so it's a good deal harder to control.

[fooker]

It worked — after destroying two whole cities.