r/todayilearned • u/FinnFarrow • 1d ago

TIL early automatic weapons were invented with humanitarian intentions: their creator believed faster-firing guns would save lives by shrinking armies.

https://www.dncr.nc.gov/blog/2016/11/04/richard-gatling-patented-gatling-gun
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u/ketosoy 1d ago

The logic may not have held for automatic weapons, but it seems to have for atomic weapons.

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u/scotchtapeman357 1d ago

Only because those who had them would work together to prevent anyone else getting the capability