This kind of news makes me think that wars are not deadly like they were in world wars. Weapons are being so accurate, I don't think world war 3 (if it happens) will result in so many casualties.
So in a way technological weaponry will save civilians. Militarily and strategically, there will no point in using nuclear weapons against civilians too, like it was done in japan.
This kind of news reassures me that conflict is getting "cleaner".
> Militarily and strategically, there will no point in using nuclear weapons against civilians too, like it was done in Japan.
You underestimate the potential of a people for desiring and inflicting misery, suffering, humiliation and "vengeance" upon a perceived enemy.
Just the other day I was reading about the Rwandan Genocide from barely 20 years ago [1]:
> over the course of 100 days, up to half a million women were raped, sexually mutilated, or murdered. There was extensive use of propaganda through both print and radio to incite violence against women, with both mediums being used to portray Tutsi women as untrustworthy.
> During the conflict Hutu extremists released hundreds of patients from hospitals, who were suffering from AIDS, and formed them into "rape squads". The intent was to infect and cause a "slow, inexorable death."
There are depressingly large groups of people in Pakistan who would rejoice a nuclear attack on India, and the other way around as well. Same with people in Korea and China against Japan. I don't know about now, but not long ago in South Korea even children were indoctrinated in hate campaigns [2], something you'd expect from Jihadi religious extremists.
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If technology really could prevent wars, then we would just have remotely-controlled miniature robots directly assassinating enemy leaders and generals, and there would be no need to maintain militaries and weapons of mass destruction.
But the only thing that would truly prevent wars is not allowing people to sow the seeds of hatred, generation after generation.
So in a way technological weaponry will save civilians. Militarily and strategically, there will no point in using nuclear weapons against civilians too, like it was done in japan.
This kind of news reassures me that conflict is getting "cleaner".