Science will surely destroy the planet

[Captain Scarlet]

Science doomsday scenerio:

With technology becoming

1. Exponentially more powerful
2. Exponentially cheaper to produce
3. Exponentially more widely available and attainable

It is inevitable that at some point it will be possible for anyone to construct a weapon of mass destruction in the privacy of their own homes and use it to set off a chain reaction which will start world war 3.
Comments?

You mean technology and the application of scientific discoveries I assume rather than science. We all already have the technology at our disposal to create carnage. What level of mass destruction were you thinking of? Destruction of whole countries from the kitchen sink of some madman? I think the answer to that is probably no. Most things which are very deadly require specialist facilities to produce them and that trend just deepens with each discovery. Nature on the other hand often finds a way of reminding us of how fragile our existence really is and insignificant we really are.