#super-weapons that your contemporary idiots keep finding and going 'yeah but this time it's fine *I* know what I'm doing'

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I imagine we'd be worried about at least some of them if the late Thag Simmons's team was still alive, working in academia, and back-stabbing each other over grants and tenure? Or if like the guy who killed Ötzi was still around to sweat it when the mummy got discovered? Or if we'd spent the last ten millennia tripping over unexploded ordnance from the war to end all woolly mammoths at least once a decade or so?

starting an elite paramilitary black ops group who sneak into the homes of authors and cut one to three zeroes off any number of years given in a fantasy or sci-fi novel