Look it's very simple. Humans are very limited with their natural capabilities. Therefore they developed weapons (doesn't matter if it's a pointy rock you can hit an attacking mountain-lion with, or a nuclear missle head).
It's the creation of weapons that is generally the most productive part of the human research. In order to gain an advantige of any and all probable enemies people developed just about everything:
Computers were first developed to calculate the missles projectory.
Missles were made to make greater damage to the enemy.
Most inventions we have today were at least partialy developed for the use of the military (thus have a role in the devestating capabileties of any army). But this progress has always been a two sided blade.
To make it short:
Without nuclear power there is no future, so I'm for it (even as a weapon, as long as it's not used). But as soon as it can be replaced by a safer source it should be!
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