fatvegan

I just had an odd thought. One of the problems with modern fighting is that you don't need big armies to do a lot of damage. Fortunately, you still needed a lot of money and backing to do a lot of damage. I suspect that has changed a bit. You can get a few guys together and a couple of hundred thousand dollars, and probably build a bomb or something. That's pretty cheap. Most middle-class Australian families could afford it. But what if some body with a lot of money who didn't want to get bombed created a market for bombs. Maybe they could offer $50 million for bombs of a certain size or something. Or base the money on how big they were. Would it create a demand for bomb-makers, or would it make it very expensive for people to get them built? You'd probably ensure that they were only sold by people who didn't care about money. But would North Korea rather sell to some cheapskate terrorist or an international organisation with loads of cash?

I reckon it would work except for the fact that people might start building bombs just for profit. Maybe the reason there aren't any bomb makers out there tinkering away is because no one has any money to pay them. If the ability to make a bomb was one of those rare things that the vast majority of people could never do then it might be OK. They'd build one bomb, sell it, and then live on some nice island somewhere under the watch of whoever they sold it to. You don't need too many lots of $50 million before you lose interest in risking your life playing with explosive chemicals.

Of course, it would be pretty risky.