I think that there's a fallacy in your argument, along the lines of the classic damage assessment on shot-down planes.
There are lots of worlds that were attacked by nukes in the Reach. It appears time and again in the materials.
There are four that I can think of that have not yet been cleaned up: Clarke, Noricum, Ergo and Drinax. There may be others, of course: God knows the Sindalians loved a nuke.
Why are the rest of the attacked worlds not also still suffering from taints from lingering actinides? Because they were cleaned up, presumably: especially in the case of low-hydrographic ones like Hilfer.
Those four worlds were either hit too recently and extensively (Ergo) to have recovered enough to clean up the damage; were hit too hard with associated bioweapons (Drinax and Noricum); or were just too fatalistic and too poor (Clarke - temporary-death-embracing religion and economic efficiency -3 which is almost the worst in the sector!)
Others that we know were subjected to orbital bombardment (eg Tech-World or Hilfer) have been cleaned up. And if Drinax gets its act together then they'll no doubt start doing the same as soon as they have a few million to spare.
We know the tech exists. We know it has no WMD uses. We know it is cheap. We know it is widespread throughout civilian society. We know that it can clean up radiation. We know that various bombarded planets are now clean.
One society or another might, for some reason, try to make it military-only for some cultural reason, but it is surely too much to suggest that *every* planet does so.
Do you have a very specific reason why that would be so for every single culture? Why even law level 0 societies that don't ban poison gas and personal FGMPs draw the line at the peaceful use of dampers? Because as soon as a single world says they are fine then you have a market, and where there is a market there will be a producer: companies don't leave money on the table.
There are lots of worlds that were attacked by nukes in the Reach. It appears time and again in the materials.
There are four that I can think of that have not yet been cleaned up: Clarke, Noricum, Ergo and Drinax. There may be others, of course: God knows the Sindalians loved a nuke.
Why are the rest of the attacked worlds not also still suffering from taints from lingering actinides? Because they were cleaned up, presumably: especially in the case of low-hydrographic ones like Hilfer.
Those four worlds were either hit too recently and extensively (Ergo) to have recovered enough to clean up the damage; were hit too hard with associated bioweapons (Drinax and Noricum); or were just too fatalistic and too poor (Clarke - temporary-death-embracing religion and economic efficiency -3 which is almost the worst in the sector!)
Others that we know were subjected to orbital bombardment (eg Tech-World or Hilfer) have been cleaned up. And if Drinax gets its act together then they'll no doubt start doing the same as soon as they have a few million to spare.
We know the tech exists. We know it has no WMD uses. We know it is cheap. We know it is widespread throughout civilian society. We know that it can clean up radiation. We know that various bombarded planets are now clean.
One society or another might, for some reason, try to make it military-only for some cultural reason, but it is surely too much to suggest that *every* planet does so.
Do you have a very specific reason why that would be so for every single culture? Why even law level 0 societies that don't ban poison gas and personal FGMPs draw the line at the peaceful use of dampers? Because as soon as a single world says they are fine then you have a market, and where there is a market there will be a producer: companies don't leave money on the table.
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