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Naokotani wrote

Same goes for Nuclear power. It was created to wage utter devastation on America's enemies, to kill millions and contaminate the land for generations.

Totally wrong - nuclear fission was discovered by researchers who were seeing what happens when you bombard X particle with Y particle - creating a weapon was not their intention.

I assume he/she means developed.

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sudo wrote

Ok, but that doesn't make it inherently bad. It can be used to destroy, or to generate electricity. It doesn't make sense to refuse to use the benevolent functions of something because it also has malevolent functions as well.

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Naokotani wrote

Of course, how could the properties of atoms be inherently bad? I was just clarifying what he meant.

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