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Naval artillery on merchant ships says otherwise. Not even privateering, literally just self-defense from piracy.

Most of this is the considerable efforts involved in keeping the materials and knowledge under wraps, North Korea's the main supplier of fissile material for the attempts. That goes away when you have any kind of basis to be talking about McNukes. If a private person can do it, then you've...

When you're talking about things where a slip-up can take a town off the map in a split second, you do not want that available to individuals with no constraints but the means to get ahold of raw material and the knowledge of how to arrange it. Simply put, the government has a vast number of...

Rocket launchers yes, also anti-air and anti-ballistic-missile systems, but not the nukes themselves. The thing of it is that the government should not be smugly declaring the populace cannot stop an attempt at tyranny, readily answering F-15s and nuke deployment, but it should be able to deal...

This isn't really operable as things get... bad when you have a large number of actors able to independently threaten the state. "Warring States" problems, where the obviously-weak central government disintegrates and the other major powers compete to become the new central government. The way...