Timeline for How can Empire A convince Empire B that it has a planet-destroying weapon without helping Empire B to recreate it?
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| Jul 6, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | Kevin | If you were a leader of Empire B, would you believe the testimony of one of your captured spies, only giving a 'Yes'/'No' answer, with the threat of immediate execution, about a subject they're not experts on and are purportedly only using testimony from enemy spies to form their opinion of? I mean, at that point, you're trusting that Empire A hasn't broken/coerced/turned your spy, that your spy hasn't been lied to, that the enemy scientists are correct without any verification, etc. All about something that Empire A has intense motivation to lie about. | |
| Jul 4, 2021 at 22:03 | history | edited | Mike Serfas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 4, 2021 at 21:56 | history | answered | Mike Serfas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |