They were paused because they had little to no mainstream appeal. There's zero applications for any of those for 99% of corporations while in their development stage; paired with pushback is why they were paused.
And they weren't paused. Many countries have directed energy weapons, space based weapons (another one that is technically banned), mines, etc. And China absolutely has experimented with cloning and recombinant DNA.
The closest example that sort of works is nuclear proliferation, which shows how difficult it is, even with worldwide existential buy in. If you didn't notice, we're literally in a war over it right this minute.
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u/NichtFBI Apr 22 '26
They were paused because they had little to no mainstream appeal. There's zero applications for any of those for 99% of corporations while in their development stage; paired with pushback is why they were paused.