Explosive Ordinance Yield Over History

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This isn't an answer to your question, so much as an attack on your thesis.

It is perhaps true that these days no popular uprising can hope to deal with a well equipped military on its own terms. However, I think recent history (since about 1985 or so) shows that military power isn't all a despot needs to hold power. After all, a big military is made up of people, and all those people have brothers and sisters and cousins living in your country. If you lose all the brothers and sisters and cousins, you will lose the army too.

So after a certian point, the increase in weaponry payload doesn't help a despot at all. However, it becomes a huge help for anyone looking to carry out asymetric warfare from the weak end. So if you are looking for social implications, that's where I'd look.

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