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		dm2 on July 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The ship that failed to change the world So could a large enough railgun, or laser, or even a large enough marshmallow could take out an entire city. Or even bats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb WMD doesn't mean take out an entire city though.

oafitupa on July 31, 2014 [–]

Of course a "large enough" railgun could be a WMD, but they aren't large enough, so they are not WMD.

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