The world, obviously, would unite against monsters.  And people in a posture of defense against enemies from the stars obviously wouldn’t fight each other.

And there were some people who were pleased.  They knew about the possibilities of the small gadgets, brought down in production to the size of a pack of cigarettes.  Knowing what they could do, they waited very interestedly to see what would happen in certain nations when secret police couldn’t carry firearms and soldiers could only be armed with spears.

They expected it to be very interesting indeed.