Very lethal but very cheap. The social media platforms are the warheads and rocket launchers used. With any cheap smart phone and N100 data, you can shoot, instigate a tribal or religious strife and set a city on fire.
Very easy to deploy. You don’t need any pilot, fighter jet or drone to drop the FNB. From the comfort of your bedroom, you can inflict unimaginable pain and havoc on any town or city.
Coverage area is unlimited. With the help of the itchy fingers of many gullible minds, who are ever ready to retweet, share or repost, the FNB takes on a vicious and virality potency with which any impish buffoon, from his or her bedroom can break homes, kill careers, destroy industries thousands of kilometres away.
Expensive materials are not needed. No enriched “Uranium”, no “Oak Ridge Alloy”, no physical rocket launcher or warheads are needed. A smart phone with internet access and a mind full of mischief are enough.
No control and very accessible. Unlike atomic and hydrogen bombs, there is little or no control on who can assemble and deploy the FNB. Any idiot, with a smart phone with internet access can build and detonate the FNB.
Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin once said “The world is at war. The primary weapons are information and misinformation. This is the new arms race”. Unfortunately, it’s a free for all. Beware and be prepared!