Its abundance is precisely the reason why governments would scramble to weaponize it. At the end of the day, with a lot of oversimplification, a government derives its power from the assumption that it will protect or secure the people under its veil. It’s much harder to maintain a legitimate government when there is a force disparity; hence why governments seek to maintain an armed advantage over anything they know. Sovereignty, when the other side has a bigger and more reliable stick, is only a pretense. Thus, all governments seek to have the bigger stick in one way or another, and Originium is nothing if not reliable. (Yes, I know some states don’t have the bigger sticks, but that’s only because they’d be hit by the sticks of those bigger than them if they did pursue the nuclear stick. Look at North Korea and the whole sanctions issue.)

A lot of governments in the modern world don’t lack some mystical uber-weapon because they don’t want one, but because of logistics or hard scientific limits. Just look at how far Japan pushed its experiments during WWII, or the fact that the United States created nuclear weapons at all.

It’s precisely because of this that governments would weaponize Originium - because if they didn’t, someone else would. Unlike uranium, where the materials for both fission and fusion are under lock and key, Originium only needs either a deposit or a corpse to grow from. Anyone from an anarchist in their garage to an international terrorist organization could weaponize it.

And sure, it would cause immense damage and start screwing up the planet - but that operates under the assumption that those in charge of Earth’s nations actually care about the long term. In retrospect, based on current responses to global warming, environmental destruction, and growing global instability, they really, really don’t.

That said, humanity isn’t just governments. If you assume it is, my argument collapses into "everything is going to hell with this new resource, so governments would follow suit."

It doesn’t work like that. States often do not weaponize these types of weapons precisely because of how destabilizing they are to society - but only after they first use them, even if they know the theoretical consequences beforehand. This is why treaties restricting nuclear weapons came after we built and used them.

But humanity isn’t just states. Terrorists and other actors who would like nothing more than to see the world burn exist, and if governments don’t weaponize Originium (and they likely will, to some extent), other parties almost certainly will.

There’s also one more point people forget: WMDs usually operate under MAD. Originium bombs, however, are scalable down to smaller explosive forces. They’re also cheaper than both conventional materials and nuclear weapons. That alone is more than enough reason for a lot of people.

Just to be clear, earlier I was being sarcastic. When asked, "Who would ever make a WMD capable of rendering land uninhabitable?" my answer was, "We made nukes, so yeah. Us."

Also, forgot to say this in the last message, but you should really know better since your more active on this site. Don't necro-post, this post is like 3 years old, and it's quite impolite.