Building a better bomb

So it seems Russia's got "the dad of all bombs" ('cause it's way, way bigger and more impressive than the American "mother of all bombs", and let's not even go there, okay?).

Didn't we (you know, the human race) establish that arms races are a bad thing? And isn't the cold war over? Why are Russia and the 'States still in this endless competition about who can kill the other more?

Oh sure, there's that hilarious insistence that

the new bomb would allow the military to "protect the nation's security and confront international terrorism in any situation and any region."

Whatever. Terrorism isn't a country. It isn't a big huge target that you can just blow up. Terrorism is not something that can be defeated by ever-bigger bombs or ever-fewer personal liberties. Or at least it wasn't until "terrorism" became a catchword for "something scary that we use to justify military and police spending".

My favourite bit in the article, though, is this:

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

There just aren't enough sarcastic comments in the world to respond to that one.