They did allow them to be used for war. Anthropic’s only red lines were autonomous weapons (technically still a ways off) and domestic surveillance (it was this one where a ‘No’ would have been relevant right now).

It should really alarm everyone that the US gov is using things like the first ever declaration of an American company as a supply chain risk or calling “fix this insecure code” something requiring export control and IDs to verify citizenship of usage as a way to warn other companies to comply with their illegal usage requests.