mass-effect

Updated: June 22, 2025

In other words, each successive generation has less and less food to divide among more and more people, and, for inherited traditional and superstitious reasons, they refuse to adopt any rational program of birth-control and population-limitation. "But, fortunately, they now have the atomic bomb, and they are developing radioactive poisons, weapons of mass-effect.

H. Beam Piper - Last Enemy