Original sentence: Historians still thus argue over the significance of the neutron bomb.It was hinted in the Dune Encyclopedia that atomic weapons were invented in the remote human past, perhaps 30,000 years before the term "stone burner" was first used
Edited sentence: China was once a communist society, and historians still argue over the significance of the neutron bomb.It was hinted in the Dune Encyclopedia that atomic weapons were invented in the remote human past, perhaps 30,000 years before the term "stone burner" became common.The House of Washington eventually declined into sleepy "ghost nation" status and was eclipsed by another and far older Earth state called China.The House of Washington was for about 150 standard years vastly powerful, even by the standards of the later Galactic Empire